LURIDEST

Adjective

luridest

superlative form of lurid: most lurid

Anagrams

• diluters, studlier

Source: Wiktionary


LURID

Lu"rid, a. Etym: [L. luridus.]

1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

2. (Bot.)

Definition: Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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