"lurid" meaning in English

See lurid in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈl(j)ʊə.ɹɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈlɔːɹɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈlʊɹɪd/ [General-American], /ˈlɚɹɪd/ [General-American], /ˈlʉːɹɪd/ [Northern-Ireland, Scotland], /ˈluːɹɪd/ [Ireland] Audio: en-us-lurid.ogg Forms: more lurid [comparative], most lurid [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪd Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūridus (“pale yellow, wan”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)leh₃y-}}, {{bor|en|la|lūridus||pale yellow, wan}} Latin lūridus (“pale yellow, wan”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} lurid (comparative more lurid, superlative most lurid)
  1. Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex. Translations (shocking, horrifying): зловещ (zlovešt) (Bulgarian), страшен (strašen) (Bulgarian), 骇人听闻 (hàiréntīngwén) (Chinese Mandarin), 骇人 (hàirén) (Chinese Mandarin), luguber (Dutch), kauhea (Finnish), kaamea (Finnish), kammottava (Finnish), kauhistuttava (Finnish), choquant [masculine] (French), choquante [feminine] (French), widerlich (German), espantoso (Portuguese), стра́шный (strášnyj) (Russian), ужа́сный (užásnyj) (Russian), espantoso (Spanish), chocante (english: Am.) (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-lurid-en-adj-5tb7kkiI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 1 6 1 20 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 60 0 8 2 15 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 0 8 1 16 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 0 4 1 15 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 47 11 18 4 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 61 0 9 2 15 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 48 11 15 4 12 10 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 61 0 11 1 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 55 5 9 5 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 66 0 7 2 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 38 3 16 7 19 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 47 11 14 4 15 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 66 0 7 2 14 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 69 0 6 1 13 11 Disambiguation of 'shocking, horrifying': 70 6 19 1 2 2
  2. Melodramatic.
    Sense id: en-lurid-en-adj-r~2Ke~fy
  3. Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. Categories (topical): Colors Translations (ghastly, pale or wan in appearance): смъртнобледен (smǎrtnobleden) (Bulgarian), kelmeä (Finnish), blafard [feminine, masculine] (French), livide (French), blême (French), livido (Italian), lúrido (Portuguese), ме́ртвенно-бле́дный (mértvenno-blédnyj) (Russian), бле́дный (blédnyj) (Russian), pálido (Spanish), lívido (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-lurid-en-adj-ewZVvgwn Disambiguation of Colors: 12 3 29 20 19 17 Disambiguation of 'ghastly, pale or wan in appearance': 8 3 84 2 1 1
  4. Being of a light yellow hue. Translations (being of a light yellow hue): kelmeä (Finnish), jaunâtre [feminine, masculine] (French), grell (German), lúrido (Portuguese), желтова́тый (želtovátyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-lurid-en-adj-XGPU1XYa Disambiguation of 'being of a light yellow hue': 0 0 2 95 0 2
  5. (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red. Categories (topical): Botany
    Sense id: en-lurid-en-adj-TJPxfAuq Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
  6. (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey. Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-lurid-en-adj-EH8HYySy Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: luridity, luridly, luridness

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.",
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      "expansion": "lurid (comparative more lurid, superlative most lurid)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The accident was described with lurid detail.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 May 22, Dalya Alberge, “John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel”, in The Observer:",
          "text": "Speculating on why publishers rejected it, he wonders whether it was deemed too lurid at the time, especially since Steinbeck was then an unknown author.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Shocking",
          "shocking"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Melodramatic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Melodramatic",
          "melodramatic"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1729, James Thomson, Britannia:",
          "text": "Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Alfred Tennyson, “Maud”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 86:",
          "text": "Wrapt in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river-tide.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “Corridors of Peril”, in The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 85:",
          "text": "The great banths sniffed the unfamiliar odours, and then with a rush they broke past us with low growls, swarming across the gardens beneath the lurid light of the nearer moon.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pale",
          "pale"
        ],
        [
          "wan",
          "wan"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being of a light yellow hue."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "yellow",
          "yellow"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Botany"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, Ethnology:",
          "text": "a lurid plant with maroon leaves and pink flowers",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a brown colour tinged with red."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈl(j)ʊə.ɹɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɔːɹɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʊɹɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɚɹɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlʉːɹɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Northern-Ireland",
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈluːɹɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊəɹɪd"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zlovešt",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "зловещ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "strašen",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "страшен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hàiréntīngwén",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "骇人听闻"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hàirén",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "骇人"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "luguber"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "kauhea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "kaamea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "kammottava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "kauhistuttava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "choquant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "choquante"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "widerlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "espantoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "strášnyj",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "стра́шный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "užásnyj",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "ужа́сный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "espantoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "english": "Am.",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "shocking, horrifying",
      "word": "chocante"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "smǎrtnobleden",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "смъртнобледен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "kelmeä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blafard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "livide"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "blême"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "livido"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "lúrido"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mértvenno-blédnyj",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "ме́ртвенно-бле́дный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blédnyj",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "бле́дный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "pálido"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ghastly, pale or wan in appearance",
      "word": "lívido"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "being of a light yellow hue",
      "word": "kelmeä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "being of a light yellow hue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jaunâtre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "being of a light yellow hue",
      "word": "grell"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "being of a light yellow hue",
      "word": "lúrido"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "želtovátyj",
      "sense": "being of a light yellow hue",
      "word": "желтова́тый"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lurid"
}

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