Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lurid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
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.
2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame
seen through smoke.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and
gray.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lurid
adj 1: horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid
life"
2: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;
"lurid details of the accident" [syn: {shocking}]
3: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through
smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
4: ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
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