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Word History: It may seem surprising that English lurid, which sometimes means "vivid," comes from Latin lūridus, "pale, sallow, sickly yellow," used to describe the color of things like skin or teeth. Latin lūridus could also describe horrifying or ghastly things like poisonous herbs or even death itself—things that make a person turn pale. In an account of the volcanic eruption that buried the city of Pompeii, the Roman writer Pliny the Younger used lūridus to describe the unsettling color of the sun shining through a cloud of ash. When lurid first appeared in English in the mid-1600s, it described things that are pale in a sickly or disturbing way. Lurid was also
 
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lurid (ˈlʊərɪd; ˈljʊərɪd)
adj
1. vivid in shocking detail; sensational
2. horrible in savagery or violence
3. pallid in colour; wan
4. glowing with an unnatural glare
[C17: from Latin lūridus pale yellow; probably related to lūtum a yellow vegetable dye]
ˈluridly adv ˈluridness n
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
lu•rid (ˈlʊər ɪd)
 
lu•rid (ˈlʊər ɪd)

adj.
1. gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
2. wildly dramatic or sensational; shocking: the lurid tales of pulp magazines.
3. shining with an unnatural, fiery glow; garishly red: a lurid sunset.
4. wan, pallid, or ghastly in hue; livid.
[1650–60; < Latin lūridus sallow, ghastly]
lu′rid•ly, adv.
lu′rid•ness, n.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

lurid
adjective
1. sensational, shocking, disgusting, graphic, violent, savage, startling, grim, exaggerated, revolting, explicit, vivid, ghastly, gruesome, grisly, macabre, melodramatic, yellow (of journalism), gory, unrestrained, shock-horror (facetious) lurid accounts of deaths and mutilations
sensational controlled, mild, factual, carefree, breezy, jaunty, light-hearted
2. glaring, bright, bloody, intense, flaming, vivid, fiery, livid, sanguine, glowering, overbright She always painted her toenails a lurid red or orange.
glaring pale, pastel, watery
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
 
luridadjective
1. Shockingly repellent:
ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, macabre.
2. Lacking color:
ashen, ashy, bloodless, cadaverous, colorless, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, waxen.
The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

urid (ˈluərid) adjective
1. (too) brightly coloured or vivid. a lurid dress/painting/sky.
vistoso ; llamativo ; chillón
2. unpleasantly shocking. the lurid details of his accident.
siniestro ; espeluznante
ˈluridly adverb
violentamente
ˈluridness noun
violencia
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
 
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