1. (a.) Causing shock or horror; ghastly pale; gloomy; dismal; as, lurid details of a disaster\.

2. (a.) Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

3. (a.) of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

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