Lurid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LURID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• shining with a red glow or glare amid darkness
• unpleasantly bright in colour, especially so as to create a harsh or unnatural effect
• presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms
• Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
• Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
• Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
• horrible in fierceness or savagery
• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
• shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
• sensational
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• causing shock or horror

Words related to LURID

lurider8 luridest9 luridly11 luridness10 sensational11

Words that contain LURID

lurider8 luridly11 silurid8 luridest9 silurids9 luridness10 telluride10 tellurides11 luridnesses12

How to use LURID in a sentence

• It was less lurid, paler, gray, more like twilight than the stormy afternoon of the other city.
• In good portraits his head has a lurid look, as if it had been at a higher temperature than that of other men.
• The firm belief in witchcraft, magic, and demons was inherited by the Middle Ages from antiquity, but it became far more lurid and made the world terrible.
• What happened in that Turkish bath will never be told with all its proper lurid coloring.
• Except for the lurid glare of the burning buildings which lit up the streets, the city was in total darkness.
• It is a lurid and sombre recital, of the most realistic kind.
• A smoke pall, shot through with lurid gleams, filled the sky.
• There is no better commentary on my first chapter than the lurid history of France in the eighteenth century.
• As it grew darker, the strong, red glare of the light-house shedding its lurid gleams on the waves, added a novel effect to the scene.
• He would have been more than human if he had not felt a shiver of nameless dread at this lurid and horrible dance of death.
• The finale is a set piece, of course, and is in free and joyous contrast to the lurid heat and sensual abandonment of the first scene.
• Its phenomena were without the lurid interest for him which it often possesses even for the sternest moralist.
• The final spectacle was a lurid representation of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Lurid presentation, by drama, novel, or magazine-story, of dramatic and highly-colored individual sex histories, is to be avoided.
• It was the less chivalrous as well as the less lurid way, but clearly it was the more artistic as well as the easier.
• With the lurid light and the broken road in the foreground, and the hurrying figures carrying their rifles, it was just like a scene on the stage.
• But the wise reader will find in this lurid poetry elements of profundity and power which are rare indeed.
• Just then a sudden, lurid gleam of light flashed across the mind of this Lady Macbeth of the streets.
• From the lurid storm Pallid lightnings break, Their swift transient form Flashes through the lake.
• One night the heavens were lighted with lurid flames, and Iola beheld the school, the pride and joy of her pupils and their parents, a smouldering ruin.
• It occurred to her that the best place whence to see it was the tower of the church, which, placed upon a little knoll, was standing out in full relief against the lurid light.
• The glare of a lurid sunset streamed across the sky and earth.
• An immense chasm had been revealed, the two arms of the river stretching far away amidst the lurid flames of a conflagration.
• These documents throw a lurid light on his versions of events, as given in this part of his History, which is merely a partisan pamphlet of autumn 1559.
• The blessed sun in the heavens becomes a lurid ball of fire when it is seen through the mist of such a conception of the divine character, and its relation to men.
• The now triumphant element was no longer smouldering and creeping stealthily onwards amidst smoke and darkness, but with a lurid glare, and a sullen roar, the flames rolled on.

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