LURID

adj. 1 sensational, vivid, shocking, startling, graphic, melodramatic The tabloids delight in a lurid scandal 2 ghastly, horrid, horrifying, horrendous, gory, grisly, gruesome, macabre, revolting, disgusting, appalling, frightful, terrible, awful Every lurid detail of the massacre was shown on TV 3 pale, ashen, sallow, wan, pallid, ghastly, baleful From the lurid shade of his skin, I could see he had some horrible affliction 4 glaring, fiery, flaming, burning, aglow, glowing, glowering The burning city cast a lurid light in the sky