Synonyms for Lurid | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "lurid" (330 found)

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Closest matches (66)

achromatic achromic affected aglow anemic appalling ashen ashy awful baleful barnumesque bawdy bedizened beige big-sounding blanched blatantbled whiteblinding bloodless

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Strong matches (99)

discolored disgusting doughy drab dull dun dun-brown dun-drab ecru eerie elevated etiolated euphuistic exsanguinated exsanguine exsanguineous extravagant faded faint fallow

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Adjective(5 words)

flashy garish gaudy grisly gruesome

Related words (165)

juicy khaki labyrinthine lackluster lake-colored laky lascivious lateritious leaden lewd lexiphanic livid lobster-red lofty loud lusterless macabre magniloquent malefic maroon

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mat mealy melodramatic meretricious mortuary muddy nasty neutral nut-brown obscene obtrusive offensive olive-brown olive-drab orotund ostentatious overbright overdone overelaborate overinvolved overwrought palepale as deathpale-faced pallid pasty pedantic pompous pornographic port-wine pretentious prurient puce pulp rabelaisian rank raunchy raw red red-dyed red-looking reddened reddish reddish-amber reddish-brown revolting rhetorical ribald rubicund rubiginous rubric rubricose ruby ruby-colored ruby-red ruddied ruddy rufescent rufous rust rust-red rusty salacious sallow scarlet screaming scurrile scurrilous seal seal-brown sensational sensationalistic sententious sepia shameless shocking showy shrieking sickly sinister smoking-room smutty snuff-colored sonorous sorrel spectacular spine-chilling stammel startling stilted sultry tabloid tall tallow-faced tan tanned taupe tawdry tawny terrible terrifying tile-red titian titian-red toast toast-brown toneless tortuous umber umber-colored uncanny unchaste unclean uncolored unearthly unprintable unrepeatable vermilion vile vinaceous vivid vulgar walnut walnut-brown wan warmwashed outwashed-out waxen weak weird whey-faced white wine wine-colored wine-red yellow yellowish-brown

Adjective(6 words)

pulpier pulpy seamier sensational shocking trashiest

Verb(1 words)

rubbernecked

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

adjectiveadjective of descriptioncolor adjectivedescriptoremotive descriptorsensational adjective

More specific

6 entries

garish palettegaudy colorgraphic descriptiongraphic detailgrisly sceneneon glow

Collocations

5 entries

lurid colorlurid descriptionlurid detailslurid paintinglurid press coverage

Inflections

2 entries

more luridmost lurid

Derivations

2 entries

luridly luridness

similar

5 entries

bright colorless colourless sensational violent

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Day after day the tabloids titillated the public with lurid details about the president's marital infidelity.

Source: tatoeba (733770)

Clouds the darkened heavens have drowned, / and snatched the daylight from the Trojans' eyes. / Black night broods on the waters; all around / from pole to pole the rattling peals resound / and frequent flashes light the lurid air. / All nature, big with instant ruin, frowned / destruction.

Source: tatoeba (6779630)

Then, amid the lurid light, / I see Troy sinking in the flames around, / and mighty Neptune's walls laid level with the ground.

Source: tatoeba (6857952)

The article has a lurid title.

Source: tatoeba (10520290)

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Lurid