Sordid vs Lurid - What's the difference?
sordid | lurid |
Dirty or squalid.
Morally degrading.
* 1912 ,
Grasping.
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 sordid and lurid
is that sordid is dirty or squalid while lurid is shocking, horrifying.sordid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* sordidity * sordidly * sordidnessAnagrams
*lurid
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.