0 (especially of a description) shocking because involving violence, sex, or immoral activity: --
You can read all the lurid details of the affair in today's paper.
1 too brightly coloured: --
That's a very lurid shade of lipstick she's wearing.
2 shocking because involving violence or sex: --
She told me all the lurid details of her divorce.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
lurid