| slovo | definícia |
lurid
(mass) | lurid
- senzačný |
lurid
(encz) | lurid,křiklavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
lurid
(encz) | lurid,řvavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
lurid
(encz) | lurid,senzační adj: Zdeněk Brož |
lurid
(encz) | lurid,šokující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Lurid
(gcide) | Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
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Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
--Thomson.
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Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
On the misty river tide. --Tennyson.
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2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame
seen through smoke.
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3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
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4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic;
as, the lurid details of a murder.
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lurid
(wn) | lurid
adj 1: horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a
lurid life"
2: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid
details of the accident" [syn: lurid, shocking]
3: shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through
smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
4: ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
luridly
(encz) | luridly,křiklavě adv: Zdeněk Brožluridly,odporně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
luridness
(encz) | luridness,bledost n: Zdeněk Brož |
silurid
(encz) | silurid, n: |
silurid fish
(encz) | silurid fish, n: |
telluride
(encz) | telluride, n: |
ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen
(gcide) | Colorless \Col"or*less\, a.
1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent;
as, colorless water; a colorless gas.
Note: [Narrower terms: {ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale,
pallid, pasty, wan, waxen}; neutral; white] [Also
See: achromatic, colorless.]
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2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar
sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes,
prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style;
definitions should be colorless.
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3. having lost its normal color.
Note: [Narrower terms: {blanched, etiolate, etiolated,
whitened}; bleached, faded, washed-out, washy;
dimmed, dulled, grayed; dirty; {dull, sober,
somber, subfusc}] colored
Syn: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.
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Lurid
(gcide) | Lurid \Lu"rid\, a. [L. luridus.]
1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
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Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
--Thomson.
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Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
On the misty river tide. --Tennyson.
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2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame
seen through smoke.
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3. (Zool.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
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4. Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic;
as, the lurid details of a murder.
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Siluridan
(gcide) | Siluridan \Si*lu"ri*dan\, n. (Zool.)
Any fish of the family Siluridae or of the order
Siluroidei.
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Telluride
(gcide) | Telluride \Tel"lu*ride\, n. (Chem.)
A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or
radical; -- formerly called telluret.
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boletus luridus
(wn) | Boletus luridus
n 1: a poisonous fungus with a dingy yellow cap and orange red
undersurface and a cylindrical reticulate stalk |
family siluridae
(wn) | family Siluridae
n 1: Old World catfishes [syn: Siluridae, family Siluridae] |
luridly
(wn) | luridly
adv 1: in a lurid manner; "it was luridly described in the book
as the place where mystics took refuge" |
luridness
(wn) | luridness
n 1: the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to
vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to
maintain their circulation" [syn: sensationalism,
luridness]
2: unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or
sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness,
lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor,
wanness, achromasia]
3: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness,
gruesomeness, luridness] |
silurid
(wn) | silurid
n 1: Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long
anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
[syn: silurid, silurid fish] |
silurid fish
(wn) | silurid fish
n 1: Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long
anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
[syn: silurid, silurid fish] |
siluridae
(wn) | Siluridae
n 1: Old World catfishes [syn: Siluridae, family Siluridae] |
telluride
(wn) | telluride
n 1: any binary compound of tellurium with other more
electropositive elements |
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