Definition of lurid in English:

lurid

adjective ˈl(j)ʊərɪdˈlʊrəd

1Unpleasantly bright in colour, especially so as to create a harsh or unnatural effect.
色彩俗丽的；色彩耀眼得不自然的
lurid food colourings
不自然的鲜艳食品色素。
a pair of lurid shorts
惹眼花哨的短裤。
Example sentencesExamples
- The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs.
- The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book.
- Hues are vivid and occasionally lurid: electric blues and yellows, intense magentas and reds.
- Hank accepted a pack of lurid pink candy, figuring that Chase might like it, if his mama didn't mind.
- And gameplay is almost as irritating as the soundtrack and lurid colours.
- She was still delighted by the lurid colour of the vegetable.
- The trumpets continue to sound as the matadors shadow-practice with lurid pink and yellow capes.
- The poster with its lurid colours and slight diagonal people positioning pretty much sums up the movie.
- The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell.
- These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid light of a consistent value.
- Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax!
- She will however, still be perched behind a glass of lurid colour, only this time it will be decorated with umbrella, sparkler and assorted fruitery.
- When they emerge, in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colours that you want to kick them, not pick them.
- It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort.
- Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers.
- A ‘lady boy’ in a particularly lurid shade of pink lipstick sold me some ceramic Buddha beads.
- He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion.
- These effects are sometimes too lurid to be pleasant.
- I wore green nail polish and lurid green stockings to complete the effect.
- The lurid colour represents the anger of violent passion.
Synonyms
brightly coloured, bright, over-bright, brilliant, glaring, fluorescent, flaming, dazzling, vivid, intense
showy, gaudy, loud
1. 1.1 Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms.
  the more lurid details of the massacre were too frightening for the children
  有关大屠杀更骇人听闻的细节太可怕了，不适合让孩子们听。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What you want to do is show those lurid effects of sex and blood.
  Playing at or discussing sex - even in graphic lurid detail - isn't really anything to freak out about.
  Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms.
  Sexual deviance, of any kind, is a threat, and that threat must be recounted in lurid detail.
  No: it's a city whose timbers are shivered relentlessly by awful warnings that vault between a grim present and a lurid future.
  Dr. Ink grew up reading, and loving, the New York tabloids, so he has a taste for the lurid and sensational.
  The lurid details of his love life and sexual habits are, for the most part, left out - which is really a downer.
  Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience.
  We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out.
  By that point, however, the audience is accustomed to lurid details that toy with the established presentations of the play.
  Details of their sexual encounters, which she spelt out in lurid detail to the hungry English press, are being repeated worldwide.
  The lurid and sensational delivery by Rodriguez propels his movie forward into feeling anything but as recycled as it really is.
  Forget all the subsequent headlines that rival any Hollywood film star for lurid exposure and sensationalism.
  And I'll be mightily amused if anyone goes searching through the archives for lurid details of my love life.
  I will spare you the lurid details and let my description of the four tykes suffice.
  We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every lurid detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause.
  It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines.
  At the time, the national press and television was full of the lurid details of a trial of a young Canadian teacher accused of having sex with pupils.
  Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every lurid detail.
  Synonyms
  sensational, sensationalist, melodramatic, exaggerated, overdramatized, extravagant, colourful, trashy, rubbishy, cheap, pulp, tasteless, kitschy
  salacious, graphic, explicit, unrestrained, prurient, ribald, suggestive, shocking, startling, dirty, filthy
  gruesome, gory, grisly, macabre, repugnant, revolting, disgusting, ghastly, morbid, unearthly, grotesque, hideous, horrifying, appalling
  informal tacky, shock-horror, juicy, full-frontal

Derivatives

luridly

adverbˈljʊərɪdliˈlʊrədli

No matter how toe - curlingly awful the King's TV and pop music references become, they simply cannot compete with the luridly unforgettable image of Janette in 80s Madonna-style basque and suspenders.
Example sentencesExamples
- The female characters are luridly described as, ‘a large woman, her legs were as thick as tree trunks… She had a small waist and large booty which switched from side to side with each step she took.’
- If the virus mutates, we could still be looking at a terrible problem - which is why the quiet contingency plans prepared by government, and then leaked with luridly alarming headlines, are mere common sense.
- The fatal truck has ‘Jesus Saves’ painted luridly along the side; earlier, the driver, Jack, had confidently talked of Jesus picking out that truck just for him, because God has a detailed plan for us all.
- Once a font of musical ideas both wildly original and luridly commercial, hip-hop has become embroiled in a protracted bout of tail-chasing.

luridness

nounˈlʊərɪdnəsˈlʊrədnəs

In any case, superficially Sirk's work has a pokerfaced luridness that has all but disappeared from our movies.
Example sentencesExamples
- No wonder we rarely saw our Uncle Donald - and who wants the weird luridness that The Gay Uncle seems to come built-in with in our family?
- It really does take away from the potential luridness of these horror movies.
- His 1950s paperback on the case was given a cover of maximum luridness.
- Without soap-opera luridness or movie product-placement, it takes the listener a while to adjust to their low-impact pleasures.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'pale and dismal in colour'): from Latin luridus; related to luror 'wan or yellow colour'.

The early sense of lurid was ‘pale and dismal in colour’. It comes from Latin luridus, related to luror ‘a wan or yellow colour’.

Definition of lurid in US English:

lurid

adjectiveˈlʊrədˈlo͝orəd

1Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect.
色彩俗丽的；色彩耀眼得不自然的
lurid food colorings
不自然的鲜艳食品色素。
a pair of lurid shorts
惹眼花哨的短裤。
Example sentencesExamples
- And gameplay is almost as irritating as the soundtrack and lurid colours.
- When they emerge, in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colours that you want to kick them, not pick them.
- The lurid colour represents the anger of violent passion.
- I wore green nail polish and lurid green stockings to complete the effect.
- These effects are sometimes too lurid to be pleasant.
- Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers.
- The poster with its lurid colours and slight diagonal people positioning pretty much sums up the movie.
- Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax!
- She will however, still be perched behind a glass of lurid colour, only this time it will be decorated with umbrella, sparkler and assorted fruitery.
- These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid light of a consistent value.
- Hues are vivid and occasionally lurid: electric blues and yellows, intense magentas and reds.
- She was still delighted by the lurid colour of the vegetable.
- Hank accepted a pack of lurid pink candy, figuring that Chase might like it, if his mama didn't mind.
- A ‘lady boy’ in a particularly lurid shade of pink lipstick sold me some ceramic Buddha beads.
- The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs.
- It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort.
- He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion.
- The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book.
- The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell.
- The trumpets continue to sound as the matadors shadow-practice with lurid pink and yellow capes.
Synonyms
brightly coloured, bright, over-bright, brilliant, glaring, fluorescent, flaming, dazzling, vivid, intense
1. 1.1 (of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crimes or sexual matters.
  （描述）可怕的；骇人听闻的
  the more lurid details of the massacre were too frightening for the children
  有关大屠杀更骇人听闻的细节太可怕了，不适合让孩子们听。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Forget all the subsequent headlines that rival any Hollywood film star for lurid exposure and sensationalism.
  And I'll be mightily amused if anyone goes searching through the archives for lurid details of my love life.
  Playing at or discussing sex - even in graphic lurid detail - isn't really anything to freak out about.
  Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every lurid detail.
  No: it's a city whose timbers are shivered relentlessly by awful warnings that vault between a grim present and a lurid future.
  By that point, however, the audience is accustomed to lurid details that toy with the established presentations of the play.
  We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every lurid detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause.
  I will spare you the lurid details and let my description of the four tykes suffice.
  Sexual deviance, of any kind, is a threat, and that threat must be recounted in lurid detail.
  The lurid and sensational delivery by Rodriguez propels his movie forward into feeling anything but as recycled as it really is.
  We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out.
  Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience.
  What you want to do is show those lurid effects of sex and blood.
  Dr. Ink grew up reading, and loving, the New York tabloids, so he has a taste for the lurid and sensational.
  Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms.
  At the time, the national press and television was full of the lurid details of a trial of a young Canadian teacher accused of having sex with pupils.
  Details of their sexual encounters, which she spelt out in lurid detail to the hungry English press, are being repeated worldwide.
  It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines.
  The lurid details of his love life and sexual habits are, for the most part, left out - which is really a downer.
  Synonyms
  sensational, sensationalist, melodramatic, exaggerated, overdramatized, extravagant, colourful, trashy, rubbishy, cheap, pulp, tasteless, kitschy

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘pale and dismal in color’): from Latin luridus; related to luror ‘wan or yellow color’.

单词	lurid
释义	Definition of lurid in English: lurid adjective ˈl(j)ʊərɪdˈlʊrəd 1Unpleasantly bright in colour, especially so as to create a harsh or unnatural effect. 色彩俗丽的；色彩耀眼得不自然的 lurid food colourings 不自然的鲜艳食品色素。 a pair of lurid shorts 惹眼花哨的短裤。 Example sentencesExamples The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs. The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book. Hues are vivid and occasionally lurid: electric blues and yellows, intense magentas and reds. Hank accepted a pack of lurid pink candy, figuring that Chase might like it, if his mama didn't mind. And gameplay is almost as irritating as the soundtrack and lurid colours. She was still delighted by the lurid colour of the vegetable. The trumpets continue to sound as the matadors shadow-practice with lurid pink and yellow capes. The poster with its lurid colours and slight diagonal people positioning pretty much sums up the movie. The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell. These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid light of a consistent value. Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax! She will however, still be perched behind a glass of lurid colour, only this time it will be decorated with umbrella, sparkler and assorted fruitery. When they emerge, in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colours that you want to kick them, not pick them. It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort. Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers. A ‘lady boy’ in a particularly lurid shade of pink lipstick sold me some ceramic Buddha beads. He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion. These effects are sometimes too lurid to be pleasant. I wore green nail polish and lurid green stockings to complete the effect. The lurid colour represents the anger of violent passion. Synonyms brightly coloured, bright, over-bright, brilliant, glaring, fluorescent, flaming, dazzling, vivid, intense showy, gaudy, loud 1.1 Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms. the more lurid details of the massacre were too frightening for the children 有关大屠杀更骇人听闻的细节太可怕了，不适合让孩子们听。 Example sentencesExamples What you want to do is show those lurid effects of sex and blood. Playing at or discussing sex - even in graphic lurid detail - isn't really anything to freak out about. Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms. Sexual deviance, of any kind, is a threat, and that threat must be recounted in lurid detail. No: it's a city whose timbers are shivered relentlessly by awful warnings that vault between a grim present and a lurid future. Dr. Ink grew up reading, and loving, the New York tabloids, so he has a taste for the lurid and sensational. The lurid details of his love life and sexual habits are, for the most part, left out - which is really a downer. Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience. We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out. By that point, however, the audience is accustomed to lurid details that toy with the established presentations of the play. Details of their sexual encounters, which she spelt out in lurid detail to the hungry English press, are being repeated worldwide. The lurid and sensational delivery by Rodriguez propels his movie forward into feeling anything but as recycled as it really is. Forget all the subsequent headlines that rival any Hollywood film star for lurid exposure and sensationalism. And I'll be mightily amused if anyone goes searching through the archives for lurid details of my love life. I will spare you the lurid details and let my description of the four tykes suffice. We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every lurid detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause. It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines. At the time, the national press and television was full of the lurid details of a trial of a young Canadian teacher accused of having sex with pupils. Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every lurid detail. Synonyms sensational, sensationalist, melodramatic, exaggerated, overdramatized, extravagant, colourful, trashy, rubbishy, cheap, pulp, tasteless, kitschy salacious, graphic, explicit, unrestrained, prurient, ribald, suggestive, shocking, startling, dirty, filthy gruesome, gory, grisly, macabre, repugnant, revolting, disgusting, ghastly, morbid, unearthly, grotesque, hideous, horrifying, appalling informal tacky, shock-horror, juicy, full-frontal Derivatives luridly adverbˈljʊərɪdliˈlʊrədli No matter how toe - curlingly awful the King's TV and pop music references become, they simply cannot compete with the luridly unforgettable image of Janette in 80s Madonna-style basque and suspenders. Example sentencesExamples The female characters are luridly described as, ‘a large woman, her legs were as thick as tree trunks… She had a small waist and large booty which switched from side to side with each step she took.’ If the virus mutates, we could still be looking at a terrible problem - which is why the quiet contingency plans prepared by government, and then leaked with luridly alarming headlines, are mere common sense. The fatal truck has ‘Jesus Saves’ painted luridly along the side; earlier, the driver, Jack, had confidently talked of Jesus picking out that truck just for him, because God has a detailed plan for us all. Once a font of musical ideas both wildly original and luridly commercial, hip-hop has become embroiled in a protracted bout of tail-chasing. luridness nounˈlʊərɪdnəsˈlʊrədnəs In any case, superficially Sirk's work has a pokerfaced luridness that has all but disappeared from our movies. Example sentencesExamples No wonder we rarely saw our Uncle Donald - and who wants the weird luridness that The Gay Uncle seems to come built-in with in our family? It really does take away from the potential luridness of these horror movies. His 1950s paperback on the case was given a cover of maximum luridness. Without soap-opera luridness or movie product-placement, it takes the listener a while to adjust to their low-impact pleasures. Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'pale and dismal in colour'): from Latin luridus; related to luror 'wan or yellow colour'. The early sense of lurid was ‘pale and dismal in colour’. It comes from Latin luridus, related to luror ‘a wan or yellow colour’. Definition of lurid in US English: lurid adjectiveˈlʊrədˈlo͝orəd 1Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect. 色彩俗丽的；色彩耀眼得不自然的 lurid food colorings 不自然的鲜艳食品色素。 a pair of lurid shorts 惹眼花哨的短裤。 Example sentencesExamples And gameplay is almost as irritating as the soundtrack and lurid colours. When they emerge, in the form of mushrooms, they come in such weird shapes and lurid colours that you want to kick them, not pick them. The lurid colour represents the anger of violent passion. I wore green nail polish and lurid green stockings to complete the effect. These effects are sometimes too lurid to be pleasant. Climbing to the surface, the ad explodes in a fantasia of lurid colour, like a milkshake made from a pair of Jimi Hendrix's trousers. The poster with its lurid colours and slight diagonal people positioning pretty much sums up the movie. Given the lurid colour of road safety cameras, they are hardly a stealth tax! She will however, still be perched behind a glass of lurid colour, only this time it will be decorated with umbrella, sparkler and assorted fruitery. These prints are evenly saturated with color and a bright, almost lurid light of a consistent value. Hues are vivid and occasionally lurid: electric blues and yellows, intense magentas and reds. She was still delighted by the lurid colour of the vegetable. Hank accepted a pack of lurid pink candy, figuring that Chase might like it, if his mama didn't mind. A ‘lady boy’ in a particularly lurid shade of pink lipstick sold me some ceramic Buddha beads. The main roads remind me of the roads on the outskirts of huge cities in the USA, with their seemingly endless miles of fast food joints and lurid neon signs. It conjurs up images of spangly cheapness, itchy Christmas party dresses in lurid colours, and hangover discomfort. He'd made it brighter by painting all the walls in lurid yellow emulsion. The look and feel of the sets and lighting are designed to suggest the lurid splashes of colour and active space that typify the conventional comic book. The accompanying picture, in lurid colours, showed a robotic device grappling with a red blood cell. The trumpets continue to sound as the matadors shadow-practice with lurid pink and yellow capes. Synonyms brightly coloured, bright, over-bright, brilliant, glaring, fluorescent, flaming, dazzling, vivid, intense 1.1 (of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crimes or sexual matters. （描述）可怕的；骇人听闻的 the more lurid details of the massacre were too frightening for the children 有关大屠杀更骇人听闻的细节太可怕了，不适合让孩子们听。 Example sentencesExamples Forget all the subsequent headlines that rival any Hollywood film star for lurid exposure and sensationalism. And I'll be mightily amused if anyone goes searching through the archives for lurid details of my love life. Playing at or discussing sex - even in graphic lurid detail - isn't really anything to freak out about. Somebody was getting off on dirty talk and we heard every lurid detail. No: it's a city whose timbers are shivered relentlessly by awful warnings that vault between a grim present and a lurid future. By that point, however, the audience is accustomed to lurid details that toy with the established presentations of the play. We've become the inquiring minds who demand to know every lurid detail, with no regard for the pain that might cause. I will spare you the lurid details and let my description of the four tykes suffice. Sexual deviance, of any kind, is a threat, and that threat must be recounted in lurid detail. The lurid and sensational delivery by Rodriguez propels his movie forward into feeling anything but as recycled as it really is. We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out. Newspapers also report, in lurid and graphic detail, cases of abuse that these women experience. What you want to do is show those lurid effects of sex and blood. Dr. Ink grew up reading, and loving, the New York tabloids, so he has a taste for the lurid and sensational. Within an hour of hearing this news I was assailed by the first of countless journalists and by next morning my son's death was in every paper in the most lurid of terms. At the time, the national press and television was full of the lurid details of a trial of a young Canadian teacher accused of having sex with pupils. Details of their sexual encounters, which she spelt out in lurid detail to the hungry English press, are being repeated worldwide. It provided the basis of last week's lurid and sensational headlines. The lurid details of his love life and sexual habits are, for the most part, left out - which is really a downer. Synonyms sensational, sensationalist, melodramatic, exaggerated, overdramatized, extravagant, colourful, trashy, rubbishy, cheap, pulp, tasteless, kitschy Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘pale and dismal in color’): from Latin luridus; related to luror ‘wan or yellow color’.
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