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Definition of Lurid
1. Adjective. Horrible in fierceness or savagery. "A lurid life"
2. Adjective. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism. "Lurid details of the accident"
3. Adjective. Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke. "Lurid flames"
4. Adjective. Ghastly pale. "Moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
Definition of Lurid
1. a. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Definition of Lurid
1. Adjective. Shocking, horrifying. ¹
2. Adjective. Melodramatic. ¹
3. Adjective. Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. ¹
4. Adjective. Being of a light yellow hue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lurid
1. causing shock or horror [adj] : LURIDLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Lurid
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1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. "Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame." (Thomson) "Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide." (Tennyson)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lurid
Literary usage of Lurid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Every few moments the lightning blazed around us with a lurid sheen, as we went
like the wind through the tempestuous night. I paused, and felt that the ..."
2. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"Dante did not hesitate to place popes in his lurid hell for no fault but that
they had perverted their office into a worldly monarchy. ..."
3. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... horse lie weltering in their gore ; Patriots are dead, and heroes dare no
more ; While solemnly the moonlight shrouds the plain, And lights the lurid ..."
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