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Lurid vs Tabloidish - What's the difference?

lurid | tabloidish |

As adjectives the difference between lurid and tabloidish

is that lurid is shocking, horrifying while tabloidish is (informal) characteristic of tabloid journalism; lurid and sensational.

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)

    tabloidish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Characteristic of tabloid journalism; lurid and sensational.
  • * 2006 , Shirley Jump, The Bachelor Preferred Pastry (page 222)
    • It was one of those tabloidish pieces filled with half-truths and exaggerations.