Gloomy vs Lurid - What's the difference?
gloomy | lurid |
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Shocking, horrifying.
Melodramatic.
Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
* Thomson
* Tennyson
Being of a light yellow hue.
(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)
As adjectives the difference between gloomy and lurid
is that gloomy is imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded while lurid is shocking, horrifying.gloomy
English
Adjective
(er)- The cavern was gloomy .
- a gloomy temper or countenance
Synonyms
* See alsolurid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The accident was described with'' ''lurid'' ''detail.
- Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame.
- Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke / On the misty river tide.
- Some paperback novels have lurid covers.
- The lurid lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere.