Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: lurid
IPA transcription: [l'ʊɹəd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: lurid
    Meaning: horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"
  • Synonyms: lurid, shocking
    Meaning: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
  • Synonyms: lurid
    Meaning: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
Usage examples
  • That was an old tale by this time; but the flames of anger threw it into lurid relief once more.
  • There were Burne and Fred Sloane arrayed to the last dot like the lurid figures on college posters.
  • The wheels were revolving, a stream of violet light, leaping out of the central tunnel, cast a lurid illumination upon the scene.
  • The dancing men were divided from the rest of the tribe by a row of fires, which, burning brightly, lit the horrid scene with a lurid red light.
  • While she gazed, it disappeared, and, the moon again emerging from the lurid and heavy thunder clouds, she turned her attention to the heavens, where the vivid lightnings darted from cloud to cloud, and flashed silently on the woods below.
  • It looked like the moon when it rises from behind clouds, and glows red and lurid from the horizon; and so this glowed, but not with the steady light of the moon, for the light was fitful, and sometimes flashed into a baleful brightness, which soon subsided into a dimmer lustre.
  • Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him--a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high--a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all.
  • During the French and Indian War, the place was prominent as a rendezvous for the enemies of American borderers; numerous bloody forays were planned here, and hither were brought to be adopted into the tribes, or to be cruelly tortured, according to savage whim, many of the captives whose tales have made lurid the history of the Ohio Valley.