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Lurid vs Baleful - What's the difference?

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Lurid is a related term of baleful.


As adjectives the difference between lurid and baleful

is that lurid is shocking, horrifying while baleful is portending evil; ominous.

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)

    baleful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * balefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Portending evil; ominous.
  • * 1674 -- John Milton: )
  • round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
  • * 1873 ,
  • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
    Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
    Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.