luridadj.

Brit.

/ˈl(j)ʊərɪd/,

/ˈljɔːrɪd/, U.S.

/ˈlʊrəd/

Etymology: < Latin lūridus pale yellow, wan, ghastly.

1. Pale and dismal in colour; wan and sallow; ghastly of hue. Said e.g. of the sickly pallor of the skin in disease, or of the aspect of things when the sky is overcast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale

blackeOE

blokec1200

blakec1275

fadec1290

bleykea1300

palisha1398

wanned1494

ashy?1541

wearish-coloured1548

wanny1555

wheyish1560

bleak1566

paly1568

ghastly1574

blankish1580

sick1599

palled1601

ashied1613

lurid1656

lunar1742

wax-like1748

ashen1808

unbrightened1827

waxy1835

peely-wally1895

waxen-hued1916

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lurid, pale, wan, black, and blew.

1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 76 A lurid paleness sits upon the skin That did enclose the beauteous body in.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Lurid, pale, wan, of a sallow colour.

1747 W. Collins Odes 6 Whilst Vengeance, in the lurid Air, Lifts her red Arm, expos'd and bare.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 105 Applied to the disease, like our own term green-sickness, from the pale, lurid, and greenish cast of the skin.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 636 Lurid papulous scall.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 13 A leaden glare..makes the snow and ice more lurid.

a. Shining with a red glow or glare amid darkness (said, e.g., of lightning-flashes across dark clouds, or flame mingled with smoke).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > dazzling or glaring > amid darkness

lurid1727

1727 J. Thomson Britannia 79 Fierce o'er their beauty blaz'd the lurid flame.

1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 167 Save that above a single height Is to be seen a lurid light, Above Helm-crag—a streak half dead, A burning of portentous red.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 159 The lurid light, which had filled the apartment, lowered and died away.

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 263 At night also the lurid reflection of immense fires hung in the sky.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xxvii. 220 A thick and thundery haze that gave a red and lurid tinge to the coast we were leaving.

1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §84. 93 A gleam of lurid light seemed for a moment to illuminate the thick darkness.

b. Said hyperbolically of the eyes, countenance, etc.

ΚΠ

1746 T. Seward Conformity between Popery & Paganism 55 The prating Grandame..His Lips..with lustral Juices arms From lurid Eyes and fascinating Charms [= urentes oculos inhibere perita, Persius ii. v. 35].

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. vi. 73 The lurid glare of the anaconda's eye.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxviii. 251 A softness gathered over the lurid fires of her eye.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xix. 216 The glow of rage was still lurid on Donatello's face.

3. figurative (from either of the preceding senses), with connotation of ‘terrible’, ‘ominous’, ‘ghastly’, ‘sensational’. Often in to cast or throw a lurid light on (a subject).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective]

eislichc888

eyesfulOE

awfulc1175

smarta1200

ferlya1225

sternc1275

grisea1300

uglya1300

dreadfula1325

fell?c1335

stout1338

perilousc1380

terriblec1400

ghastfulc1449

timorous1455

epouventable1477

bedreadc1485

dreadablec1490

dreadc1540

buggisha1555

dreaded1556

monster-like1561

dire1567

scareful1567

terrifying1577

scary1582

direful1583

affrighting1592

dismal1594

affrightful1603

diral1606

tirable1607

frighting1619

scaring1641

affrighteninga1651

formidolous1656

terrific1667

terrifical1677

atrocious1733

terrorful1789

orful1845

lurid1850

terrorsome1890

turble1893

timorsome1894

like the wrath of God1936

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > sensational

sensationary1755

lurid1850

sensational1859

sensationist1859

sensationalist1862

sensationalistic1863

yellow book1895

pulpy1915

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iv. 71 Woe unto the man on whom that idea, true or false, rises lurid.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 23 Lurid indications of the better marriages she might have made, shone athwart the awful gloom of her composure.

1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions viii. 273 The lurid, stormy eloquence of Edmund Burke.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. ix. 174 He adds one fact more which casts a lurid light on the annals of the persecution.

1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 182 Peter's voice prattled on, its lurid language in the strangest contrast to the gentleness of his speech.

4. In scientific use: Of a dingy brown or yellowish-brown colour. †Applied spec. to plants of the family Luridæ of Linnæus (see quots. 1822, 1826, 1834).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown

yellow-dun1593

honey-coloured1603

cinnamon-coloured1679

cinnamon1685

lurid1767

rhubarb1792

tombac-brown1794

sherry-bay1856

khaki1863

khaki coloured1879

golden oak1883

rhubarby1885

crotal1901

brown-gold1909

Sahara1923

safari1934

1767 W. Harte Christ's Par. Sower in Amaranth 7 Lurid hemlock, ting'd with pois'nous stains.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 121 Cataplasms of hemlock, or the other umbellate or lurid plants in common use.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 281 Lurid, yellow with some mixture of brown. Dirty yellow.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 587 The lurid and umbellate narcotics.

1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 478 Lurid; dirty brown, a little clouded.

1856 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Lurid, of a dingy brown, grey with orange.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xii. 25 In many species the body presents strongly contrasted, though lurid tints.

1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 400 Ardellæ depressed, lurid, dark-purplish.

Derivatives

ˈluridly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adverb] > with a reddish glare (of lightning)

luridly1795

1795–7 R. Southey Minor Poems in Poet. Wks. II. 210 Yon cloud that rolls luridly over the hill Is red with their weapons of fire.

1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 13 Luridly Coursed the swift lightning through the sky.

ˈluridness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > vividness or brightness

brightnessa1475

livelihood1566

floridness1661

vividness1668

liveliness1713

vivacity1735

splendour1774

flame1800

vividity1813

luridness1864

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Luridness, black and blueness, paleness, &c.

1864 Spectator 20 Aug. 957/1 The writer has deliberately..softened a hundred tints which would have increased the luridness of his picture.

Draft additions September 2007

Unpleasantly bright in colour; gaudy, loud.

ΚΠ

1913 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 21 Dec. 4/4 I am fond of pale tints, rather than the wild riot of lurid color.

1963 E. Taylor Fall of Dynasties viii. 151 The wave of bad taste which all over Europe was twisting furniture like plasticine.., put out blossoms of a particularly lurid mauve in Germany.

1994 M. di Michele Under my Skin xiii. 139 Lucy..wore unfamiliar and lurid pinkish red lipstick.

2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land ix. 91 Girls wore spray-tight trousers in amusingly lurid patterns.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	lurid
释义	luridadj. Brit. /ˈl(j)ʊərɪd/, /ˈljɔːrɪd/, U.S. /ˈlʊrəd/ Etymology: < Latin lūridus pale yellow, wan, ghastly. 1. Pale and dismal in colour; wan and sallow; ghastly of hue. Said e.g. of the sickly pallor of the skin in disease, or of the aspect of things when the sky is overcast. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale blackeOE blokec1200 blakec1275 fadec1290 bleykea1300 palisha1398 wanned1494 ashy?1541 wearish-coloured1548 wanny1555 wheyish1560 bleak1566 paly1568 ghastly1574 blankish1580 sick1599 palled1601 ashied1613 lurid1656 lunar1742 wax-like1748 ashen1808 unbrightened1827 waxy1835 peely-wally1895 waxen-hued1916 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lurid, pale, wan, black, and blew. 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 76 A lurid paleness sits upon the skin That did enclose the beauteous body in. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Lurid, pale, wan, of a sallow colour. 1747 W. Collins Odes 6 Whilst Vengeance, in the lurid Air, Lifts her red Arm, expos'd and bare. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 105 Applied to the disease, like our own term green-sickness, from the pale, lurid, and greenish cast of the skin. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 636 Lurid papulous scall. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 13 A leaden glare..makes the snow and ice more lurid. 2. a. Shining with a red glow or glare amid darkness (said, e.g., of lightning-flashes across dark clouds, or flame mingled with smoke). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [adjective] > dazzling or glaring > amid darkness lurid1727 1727 J. Thomson Britannia 79 Fierce o'er their beauty blaz'd the lurid flame. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 167 Save that above a single height Is to be seen a lurid light, Above Helm-crag—a streak half dead, A burning of portentous red. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 159 The lurid light, which had filled the apartment, lowered and died away. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 263 At night also the lurid reflection of immense fires hung in the sky. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures (1878) xxvii. 220 A thick and thundery haze that gave a red and lurid tinge to the coast we were leaving. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §84. 93 A gleam of lurid light seemed for a moment to illuminate the thick darkness. b. Said hyperbolically of the eyes, countenance, etc. ΚΠ 1746 T. Seward Conformity between Popery & Paganism 55 The prating Grandame..His Lips..with lustral Juices arms From lurid Eyes and fascinating Charms [= urentes oculos inhibere perita, Persius ii. v. 35]. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. vi. 73 The lurid glare of the anaconda's eye. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxviii. 251 A softness gathered over the lurid fires of her eye. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xix. 216 The glow of rage was still lurid on Donatello's face. 3. figurative (from either of the preceding senses), with connotation of ‘terrible’, ‘ominous’, ‘ghastly’, ‘sensational’. Often in to cast or throw a lurid light on (a subject). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective] eislichc888 eyesfulOE awfulc1175 smarta1200 ferlya1225 sternc1275 grisea1300 uglya1300 dreadfula1325 fell?c1335 stout1338 perilousc1380 terriblec1400 ghastfulc1449 timorous1455 epouventable1477 bedreadc1485 dreadablec1490 dreadc1540 buggisha1555 dreaded1556 monster-like1561 dire1567 scareful1567 terrifying1577 scary1582 direful1583 affrighting1592 dismal1594 affrightful1603 diral1606 tirable1607 frighting1619 scaring1641 affrighteninga1651 formidolous1656 terrific1667 terrifical1677 atrocious1733 terrorful1789 orful1845 lurid1850 terrorsome1890 turble1893 timorsome1894 like the wrath of God1936 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] > sensational sensationary1755 lurid1850 sensational1859 sensationist1859 sensationalist1862 sensationalistic1863 yellow book1895 pulpy1915 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iv. 71 Woe unto the man on whom that idea, true or false, rises lurid. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 23 Lurid indications of the better marriages she might have made, shone athwart the awful gloom of her composure. 1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions viii. 273 The lurid, stormy eloquence of Edmund Burke. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. ix. 174 He adds one fact more which casts a lurid light on the annals of the persecution. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 182 Peter's voice prattled on, its lurid language in the strangest contrast to the gentleness of his speech. 4. In scientific use: Of a dingy brown or yellowish-brown colour. †Applied spec. to plants of the family Luridæ of Linnæus (see quots. 1822, 1826, 1834). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown yellow-dun1593 honey-coloured1603 cinnamon-coloured1679 cinnamon1685 lurid1767 rhubarb1792 tombac-brown1794 sherry-bay1856 khaki1863 khaki coloured1879 golden oak1883 rhubarby1885 crotal1901 brown-gold1909 Sahara1923 safari1934 1767 W. Harte Christ's Par. Sower in Amaranth 7 Lurid hemlock, ting'd with pois'nous stains. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 121 Cataplasms of hemlock, or the other umbellate or lurid plants in common use. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 281 Lurid, yellow with some mixture of brown. Dirty yellow. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 587 The lurid and umbellate narcotics. 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 478 Lurid; dirty brown, a little clouded. 1856 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Lurid, of a dingy brown, grey with orange. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xii. 25 In many species the body presents strongly contrasted, though lurid tints. 1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 400 Ardellæ depressed, lurid, dark-purplish. Derivatives ˈluridly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adverb] > with a reddish glare (of lightning) luridly1795 1795–7 R. Southey Minor Poems in Poet. Wks. II. 210 Yon cloud that rolls luridly over the hill Is red with their weapons of fire. 1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 13 Luridly Coursed the swift lightning through the sky. ˈluridness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > vividness or brightness brightnessa1475 livelihood1566 floridness1661 vividness1668 liveliness1713 vivacity1735 splendour1774 flame1800 vividity1813 luridness1864 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Luridness, black and blueness, paleness, &c. 1864 Spectator 20 Aug. 957/1 The writer has deliberately..softened a hundred tints which would have increased the luridness of his picture. Draft additions September 2007 Unpleasantly bright in colour; gaudy, loud. ΚΠ 1913 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 21 Dec. 4/4 I am fond of pale tints, rather than the wild riot of lurid color. 1963 E. Taylor Fall of Dynasties viii. 151 The wave of bad taste which all over Europe was twisting furniture like plasticine.., put out blossoms of a particularly lurid mauve in Germany. 1994 M. di Michele Under my Skin xiii. 139 Lucy..wore unfamiliar and lurid pinkish red lipstick. 2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land ix. 91 Girls wore spray-tight trousers in amusingly lurid patterns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1656
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