lurid

Meaning

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.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Latin lÅ«ridus ("pale yellow, wan").

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