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Fearful vs Lurid - What's the difference?

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Fearful is a related term of lurid.


As adjectives the difference between fearful and lurid

is that fearful is frightening while lurid is shocking, horrifying.

fearful

English

Alternative forms

* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

Adjective

(fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
  • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

    lurid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shocking, horrifying.
  • The accident was described with'' ''lurid'' ''detail.
  • Melodramatic.
  • Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
  • * Thomson
  • Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
  • * Tennyson
  • Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river tide.
  • Being of a light yellow hue.
  • Some paperback novels have lurid covers.
    The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.
  • (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
  • (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.
  • (Webster 1913)