THESAURUS
lurid
Barnumesque, Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, Titian, Titian-red, achromatic, achromic, affected, aglow, anemic, appalling, ashen, ashy, awful, baleful, bawdy, bedizened, beige, big-sounding, blanched, blatant, bled white, blinding, bloodless, blue, brazen, brazenfaced, bricky, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, burning, cadaverous, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chloranemic, chocolate, cinnamon, cloak-and-dagger, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, colorful, colorless, convoluted, corpselike, crimson, crude, damask, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, declamatory, dim, dimmed, dingy, dirty, discolored, disgusting, doughy, drab, dull, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, eerie, elevated, etiolated, euphuistic, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, extravagant, faded, faint, fallow, fawn, fawn-colored, ferruginous, fiery, filthy, fire-red, flagrant, flamboyant, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flaring, flashy, flat, flaunting, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frightful, fulsome, fuscous, garish, gaudy, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaring, glowering, glowing, gorgeous, gory, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, graphic, gray, grege, grim, grisly, gruesome, gules, haggard, hazel, hideous, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, hot, hueless, hypochromic, impure, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, inkhorn, iron-red, ithyphallic, khaki, labyrinthine, lackluster, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, leaden, lewd, lexiphanic, livid, lobster-red, lofty, loud, lusterless, macabre, magniloquent, malefic, maroon, mat, mealy, melodramatic, meretricious, mortuary, muddy, nasty, neutral, nut-brown, obscene, obtrusive, offensive, olive-brown, olive-drab, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedantic, pompous, pornographic, port-wine, pretentious, puce, raunchy, raw, red, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, revolting, rhetorical, ribald, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, salacious, sallow, scarlet, screaming, scurrile, scurrilous, seal, seal-brown, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, sepia, shameless, shocking, showy, shrieking, sickly, sinister, smoking-room, smutty, snuff-colored, sonorous, sorrel, spectacular, spine-chilling, stammel, startling, stilted, sultry, tabloid, tall, tallow-faced, tan, taupe, tawdry, tawny, terrible, terrifying, tile-red, toast, toast-brown, toneless, tortuous, umber, umber-colored, uncanny, unchaste, unclean, uncolored, unearthly, unprintable, unrepeatable, vermilion, vile, vinaceous, vivid, vulgar, walnut, walnut-brown, wan, warm, washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, yellow, yellowish-brown
ROGET THESAURUS
lurid
Darkness
N
darkness, absence of light, blackness, obscurity, gloom, murk, dusk, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness, night, midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure, Erebus, the jaws of darkness, sablevested night, shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra, sciagraphy, obscuration, occultation, adumbration, obumbration, obtenebration, offuscation, caligation, extinction, eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade, chiaroscuro, noctivagation, black body, hohlraum, black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter, dark, darksome, darkling, obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black, caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), somber, dusky, unilluminated &c (illuminate), nocturnal, dingy,
lurid, gloomy, murky, murksome, shady, umbrageous, overcast, cloudy, darkened, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagous, in the dark, in the shade, brief as the lightning in the collied night, eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature, the blackness of the noonday night, the prayer of Ajax was for light.
Dimness
N
dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy,
lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.
Redness
N
redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform,
lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.
