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adj. Causing shock or horror; gruesome.

adj. Marked by sensationalism: a lurid account of the crime. See Synonyms at ghastly.

adj. Glowing or shining with the glare of fire through a haze: lurid flames.

adj. Sallow or pallid in color.

adj. Shocking, horrifying.

adj. Melodramatic.

adj. Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.

adj. Being of a light yellow hue.

adj. Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

adj. Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

adj. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

adj. Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

adj. Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

adj. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic.

Pale; wan; ghastly; of the color or appearance of dull smoky flames; having the character of a light which does not show the colors of objects.

Lighted up with a ghastly glare; combining light and gloom.

In botany and zoology, having a dirty-brown color; slightly clouded.

adj. horrible in fierceness or savagery

adj. ghastly pale

adj. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism

adj. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke

"On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvothe man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimesis also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers 'home."

violent    colorless    colourless    sensational    bright   

wan    gloomy    dismal    ghastly    cloudy    fiery   

bluish    vivid    livid    murky    sombre    garish    rosy    blue-white    startle    weird