a. [ L. luridus. ] 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder. [ PJC ]