Usually means: Vividly shocking or sensational; graphic.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word lurid:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lurid: Merriam-Webster
  3. lurid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lurid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lurid: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lurid: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lurid, lurid, lurid, lurid: Wordnik
  8. lurid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lurid: Wiktionary
  10. lurid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lurid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lurid: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lurid, lurid: Dictionary.com
  14. lurid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lurid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lurid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lurid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lurid: Rhymezone
  19. lurid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lurid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lurid: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lurid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. lurid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lurid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. lurid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurid: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lurid: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lurid: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lurid: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See luridly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex.
adjective:  Melodramatic.
adjective:  Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
adjective:  Being of a light yellow hue.
adjective:  (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red.
adjective:  (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

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