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Lurid vs Odious - What's the difference?

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Lurid is a related term of odious.


As adjectives the difference between lurid and odious

is that lurid is shocking, horrifying while odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

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)

    odious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

    Synonyms

    * detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

    Anagrams

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