lurid
3
7.7
- adjective
- /ˈlʊrɪd/
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chillón
- It's about 3 feet by 5 feet with very lurid colors and very bold lettering.
- lurid green
- lurid pink
- lurid red
Examples
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Burning trees cast lurid shadows across the small valley.
Fiction book (1991) -
Clay tosses the paperback to Danny: God's Little Acre, with a lurid cover.
Fiction book (1990) -
- It's a rather lurid cover.
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The street is bright as day and lurid green.
Fiction book (2000) -
I think it looks fairly lurid, but it grabbed some attention when posted.
Blog text (20) -
More lights gleam inside the dollhouse; some of them a lurid red.
Fiction book (1993) -
In the close-up, she is lurid, ruined, drenched in red light.
Fiction book (2002) -
All that night, the aurora flamed and shimmered lurid colors across the sky to the north.
Fiction book (1997) -
The magma sea churned sluggishly at its feet; the rock gleamed brilliantly in the lurid light.
Fiction book (1991) -
The painting was filled with lurid colors that almost seemed to glow in the dark.
Synonyms
49
6.8
Causing great fear and shock, often like death or ghosts
23
3.0
Very bright and clear in color and easy to notice
2
3.1
So bright that it is hard to see
1
3.8
A very bright light that hurts your eyes
1
7.9
A pale bluish light that looks eerie
Colors or tones that are too strong and look unnatural
Very bright and harsh light that makes it hard to see
Strange and frightening in a way that seems supernatural
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Lurid comes from the Latin luridus, which meant 'pale' or 'ghastly'. So a very bright, strange, or unhealthy-looking colour or light is called lurid because it looks unnatural and shocking.