lurid (n.)
- appalling
- bawdy
- beige
- blue
- brown
- brunet
- burning
- cardinal
- carmine
- carnation
- carnelian
- cerise
- cherry
- chocolate
- cinnamon
- cocoa
- coffee
- crimson
- crude
- damask
- dead
- dim
- drab
- dun
- ecru
- elevated
- faint
- fallow
- fawn
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flat
- foul
- gaudy
- glowing
- gory
- graphic
- gray
- grim
- haggard
- hazel
- hot
- infrared
- inkhorn
- khaki
- loud
- macabre
- maroon
- mat
- mortuary
- nasty
- neutral
- offensive
- pale
- pasty
- puce
- raw
- red
- ribald
- rubric
- ruby
- rust
- rusty
- sallow
- scarlet
- screaming
- seal
- sepia
- shrieking
- sinister
- sorrel
- spectacular
- stammel
- tabloid
- tall
- tan
- taupe
- tawny
- terrible
- toast
- umber
- vermilion
- vile
- walnut
- wan
- warm
- waxen
- weak
- weird
- white
- wine
- wine-colored
- yellow
lurid (adj.)
- achromatic
- achromic
- affected
- aglow
- anemic
- appalling
- ashen
- ashy
- awful
- baleful
- bawdy
- beige
- blanched
- blatant
- blinding
- bloodless
- blue
- brazen
- brown
- brownish
- brownish-yellow
- brunet
- burning
- cadaverous
- cardinal
- carmine
- carnation
- cerise
- cherry
- cherry-red
- cloak-and-dagger
- colorful
- colorless
- convoluted
- crimson
- crude
- damask
- dead
- deadly
- deathlike
- deathly
- declamatory
- dim
- dimmed
- dingy
- dirty
- disgusting
- doughy
- drab
- dull
- dun
- eerie
- elevated
- etiolated
- exsanguine
- extravagant
- faded
- faint
- fallow
- fawn-colored
- fiery
- filthy
- flagrant
- flamboyant
- flame-colored
- flaming
- flaring
- flashy
- flat
- foul
- foul-mouthed
- foul-spoken
- frightful
- fulsome
- fuscous
- garish
- gaudy
- ghastly
- ghostlike
- ghostly
- glaring
- glowering
- glowing
- gorgeous
- gory
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- graphic
- gray
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- haggard
- hazel
- hideous
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrifying
- hot
- hueless
- impure
- inflamed
- infrared
- khaki
- labyrinthine
- lackluster
- laky
- leaden
- lewd
- livid
- lofty
- loud
- lusterless
- macabre
- magniloquent
- malefic
- maroon
- mat
- mealy
- melodramatic
- meretricious
- mortuary
- muddy
- nasty
- neutral
- nut-brown
- obscene
- obtrusive
- offensive
- olive-brown
- olive-drab
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overwrought
- pale
- pale-faced
- pallid
- pasty
- pedantic
- pompous
- pornographic
- pretentious
- raunchy
- raw
- red
- reddened
- reddish
- reddish-brown
- revolting
- rhetorical
- ribald
- rubicund
- ruby
- ruby-red
- ruddy
- rust
- rust-red
- rusty
- salacious
- sallow
- scarlet
- screaming
- scurrilous
- seal
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- shameless
- shocking
- showy
- sickly
- sinister
- smutty
- sonorous
- sorrel
- spectacular
- startling
- stilted
- sultry
- tall
- tan
- taupe
- tawdry
- tawny
- terrible
- terrifying
- toneless
- tortuous
- umber
- uncanny
- unchaste
- unclean
- uncolored
- unearthly
- unprintable
- unrepeatable
- vermilion
- vile
- vinaceous
- vivid
- vulgar
- wan
- warm
- washed-out
- waxen
- weak
- weird
- white
- wine-red
- yellow
