Lurid

What do we mean by lurid?

Characterized by vivid description or explicit details that are meant to provoke or shock. adjective

Characterized by shocking or outrageous behavior. adjective

Bright and intense in color; vivid. adjective

Sallow or pallid. adjective

Pale; wan; ghastly; of the color or appearance of dull smoky flames; having the character of a light which does not show the colors of objects.

Lighted up with a ghastly glare; combining light and gloom.

In botany and zoology, having a dirty-brown color; slightly clouded.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. adjective

Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. adjective

Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. adjective

Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic. adjective

Shocking, horrifying. adjective

Melodramatic. adjective

Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. adjective

Being of a light yellow hue. adjective

Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. adjective

Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey. adjective

Horrible in fierceness or savagery adjective

Shocking, horrifying.

Melodramatic.

Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.

Being of a light yellow hue.

Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

Words that are spelled similarly to lurid:
lurid, lucid, lured, murid, larid, lyrid, lurie, luria, lurd, lorid, luid, burid, luri, eurid.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word lurid:
debauchery, sensationalism, sensationalist, exploitative, mist, melodrama, cannibalism, filthy, headlines, gruesome, fantasies, sensational, tabloid, tales, cruelty, revelations, detail, pulp, lips, accusations, accounts, insane, rumours, details, kidnapping, torture, tale, sexuality, sex, thriller, imagination, clare, stories, exploitation, allegations, colours, portrayal, sexual, dave, violence, murder, moral, testimony, familiar, rape, yellow, horror, pink, banned, scandal, fantasy, alleged, affair, fiction, scenes, graphic, plot, mystery, romantic, subjects, adventure, crime, crimes, reports, account, newspaper, moore, violent, fictional, description, letter, suicide, articles, gang, anyone, content, poet, picture, matter.

Words that rhyme with lurid:
murid, neurad, secure id.

Adjectives that are often used to describe lurid:
more, little, less, most, dark, cheap, green, whole, twilight, murky, much, interior, future, least, largest.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective lurid:
light, glare, details, stories, tales, picture, glow, accounts, detail, flames, pictures, flame, colours, colors, descriptions, account, sky, story, fire, tale, gleam, headlines, description, past, smoke, lights, language, melodrama, flashes, clouds, fires, reports, terms, background, hue, flash, scene, scenes, red, imagination, covers, images, cloud, blaze, colour, sunset, atmosphere, lightning, fantasies, sun, eyes, gleams, gloom, color, posters, cover, air, reputation, haze, novels, aspects, dreams, fiction, illustrations, drama, style, skies, reflection, visions, image, orange, examples, imagery, spectacle, novel, tinge, shade, brightness, blue, purple, title, appearance, fantasy, hues, figures, shadows, darkness, passages, dream, sensationalism, rhetoric, publicity, crimes, intermixture.

Consonant match to lurid:
larid, lyrid, laroid, lyraid, lee read, lee road, lee rode, leh road, leigh read, leigh road, lo read, low red, lure had.

Words that sound like lurid:
lurid, larid, lorid, lured, lura, loord, lou reed, lerot, lorette, laurette, lord, laura, lard, lara, lowered, lira, fluoride, florid, lora, layered, lire, lyra, laird, liad, leered, lera, leora, liard, lorded, liora, lurie, lrod, lourd, larned, loured, lorah, laurate, leira, luray, luria, laired, lourde, low rate, laureled, lyrate, laurelled, layard, horrid, herod, jarod, harrod, sherrod, harod, hoorayed, floride, alarid, larded, luid, lipread, lip read, light red, lip-read, lowbred, larry, laurie, alfred, lated, lary, laureate, chloride, laurent, claret, lariat, floret, flouride, allured, lairy, fluorite, lauri, lart, lari, gloried, lauro, laro, alura, larget, allura, larus, laurus, laria, lauria, larked, fly rod, larrea, laras, blear-eyed, larrow, clairet, la roux, clear-eyed.