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Lurid vs Revolting - What's the difference?

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Lurid is a related term of revolting.


As adjectives the difference between lurid and revolting

is that lurid is shocking, horrifying while revolting is which revolts or is repelling.

As a verb revolting is

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As a noun revolting is

the action of the verb to revolt .

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)

    revolting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • The peasants are revolting !

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to revolt .
  • * 1837 , The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)
    • Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Which revolts or is repelling.
    • The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.