Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryPruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex. · Melodramatic. · Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. · Being of a light yellow hue.
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *loiros Latin lūror Latin lūridusbor. English lurid Borrowed from Latin lūridus (“pale yellow, wan”).
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