Dictionary Entry
lurid
lurid is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
- 2adjective
Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
- 3adjective
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
- 4adjective
shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
"a lurid sunset"
"lurid flames"
- 5adjective
ghastly pale
"moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
- 6adjective
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
"lurid details of the accident"
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- 7adjective
horrible in fierceness or savagery
"lurid crimes"
"a lurid life"
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