Terrific vs Lurid - What's the difference?
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(colloquial) Frighteningly good.
(colloquial) Astounding or awesome.
Terrifying; causing terror
Frightful or very unpleasant.
(colloquial) Extraordinarily great or intense.
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)
Terrific is a related term of lurid.
As adjectives the difference between terrific and lurid
is that terrific is (colloquial) frighteningly good while lurid is shocking, horrifying.terrific
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Alternative forms
* terrifick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I say! She's a terrific tennis player.
- The car came round the bend at a terrific speed.
- The lightning was followed by a terrific clap of thunder.
- I've got a terrific hangover this morning.
- terrific speed
Synonyms
* brilliant * horrificExternal links
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* English terms derived from Latinlurid
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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.