| 单词 | lurid |
| 例句 | lurid adjective 1.•lurid colors:bright, brilliant, vivid, glaring, shocking, fluorescent, flaming, dazzling, intense | gaudy, loud, showy, bold, garish, tacky. ANT muted, subtle. 2.•the lurid details:sensational, sensationalist, exaggerated, overdramatized, colorful | salacious, graphic, explicit, unrestrained, prurient, shocking | gruesome, gory, grisly | informal juicy, full-frontal. ANT discreet, restrained.WORD NOTE lurid Lurid and garish are both vivid words with similar meanings. What lurid gives you that garish doesn't is a hint of sleaze. And complexity, too: it is one of those words that usefully take you in two divergent emotional directions at once, suggesting that the object described is both sordid and appealing. ( Louche does this too.) — DAConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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