Definition of Lurid

Lu´rid
a.1.Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
- Thomson.
2.(Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3.(Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
4.Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.


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