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Lurid vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Lurid is a related term of forbidding.


As adjectives the difference between lurid and forbidding

is that lurid is shocking, horrifying while forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

As a verb forbidding is

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As a noun forbidding is

the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

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)

    forbidding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.