Lurid vs Balmy - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between lurid and balmy

is that lurid is shocking, horrifying while balmy is producing balm.

(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)

(er)

Producing balm.

Soothing or fragrant.

Mild and pleasant.

(informal) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.