lurid vs of color

lurid

adj
  • Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance. 

  • Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey. 

  • Being of a light yellow hue. 

  • Having a brown colour tinged with red. 

  • Shocking, horrifying, especially when it comes to violence or sex. 

  • Melodramatic. 

of color

adj
  • Nonwhite; of a race other than white, for example black. 

  • Belonging to a category of people with mixed black and white ancestry in the Americas in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 

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