lurid

  • 21lurid — adj. Lurid is used with these nouns: ↑colour, ↑description, ↑detail, ↑headline, ↑story, ↑tale …

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  • 22lurid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. pallid, ghastly; glaring, eerie; sinister, sensational. See darkness, colorlessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Shocking] Syn. startling, offensive, sensational; see unusual 2 , violent 4 . 2.… …

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  • 23lurid — [ˈlʊərɪd] , [ˈljʊərɪd] adj 1) full of shocking or unpleasant details 2) a lurid colour is very bright in an ugly way …

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  • 24lurid — adj. [L. luridus, pale yellow] A dirty yellowish color; dismal; dingy …

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  • 25lurid — Synonyms and related words: Barnumesque, Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, Titian, Titian red, achromatic, achromic, affected, aglow, anemic, appalling, ashen, ashy, awful, baleful, bawdy, bedizened, beige, big sounding, blanched …

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  • 26lurid — red yellow; yellow brown Colour Terms …

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  • 27lurid — lu·rid || lÊŠrɪd / ljÊŠÉ™rɪd adj. terrible, dreadful, horrible, appalling; shocking, sensational; unnaturally bright, glaring; pale, sallow …

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  • 28lurid — [ l(j)ʊərɪd] adjective 1》 unpleasantly vivid in colour. 2》 (of a description) shocking or sensational. Derivatives luridly adverb luridness noun Origin C17 (in the sense pale and dismal ): from L. luridus; related to luror wan or yellow colour …

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  • 29lurid — (L). Bale, ghastly, wan …

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  • 30lurid — a. Gloomy, murky, ghastly, dismal, pale, lowering …

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