| 单词 | to cast or throw a lurid light on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cast or throw a lurid light on 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. < as lemmas |
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