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

1. adjective. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
2. adjective. Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. adjective. Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
4. adjective. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke

   "a lurid sunset"

   "lurid flames"

5. adjective. ghastly pale

   "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"

6. adjective. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism

   "lurid details of the accident"

   Synonyms: shocking

7. adjective. horrible in fierceness or savagery

   "lurid crimes"

   "a lurid life"

Synonyms

shocking

Common word forms

luridly, luridity, luridness

Words from these letters

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