What's the difference between lucid and lurid?

Lucid


Definition:

  • (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
  • (n.) Clear; transparent.
  • (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
  • (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
  • (2) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
  • (3) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
  • (4) The mortality related to deficits following a lucid interval was 44 per cent, whereas the mortality of immediate deficit was 13 per cent.
  • (5) (3) Some patients go into delirium after being lucid for as long as a week and have hallucinations, illusions, and motor excitation for a few days-or over several weeks.
  • (6) In contrast, the mechanism of injury, the verbal Glasgow Coma Scale score during the lucid interval, and the length of time until deterioration or until operative intervention did not influence the final result.
  • (7) While still a close run thing, the statistics now appear to favour the back foot.” His non-cricket explanation did little to increase the speech’s lucidity average.
  • (8) After 45 minutes, Ethiopia's troubles had slipped away and a sense of wellbeing, alertness, euphoria and lucidity took over.
  • (9) He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
  • (10) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
  • (11) In the technically complex world of F1 his triumph can be explained in the most lucid of terms: he was faster than his most serious rival, his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
  • (12) The patient emerged from anesthesia comfortable and lucid and experienced no perioperative anesthetic complications.
  • (13) The majority of particles visualized by immune electron microscopy had electrondense appearance, while electron-lucid particles were only occasionally encountered.
  • (14) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
  • (15) The study of a series of brains from patients who had a severe head injury and died within 72 h without a lucid interval showed that there was a step-wise progression in the development of retraction balls.
  • (16) When I went up to the spot I was pretty lucid, as much as one can be in that kind of situation.
  • (17) Ed Miliband's greatest strength – more than either his undoubted intellect or obvious lucidity – is the courage of his conviction.
  • (18) The detection of skull fracture or of a lucid interval was not prognostically useful.
  • (19) The patient's age, the course of consciousness before operation (whether there was a lucid interval), and the clot location did not correlate with the final outcome.
  • (20) Nurses interact significantly less with confused than lucid patients.

Lurid


Definition:

  • (a.) Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
  • (a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
  • (a.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
  • (2) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (3) He called his pressure group founded to rid society of the evil of cake 'FUCKD and BOMBD' he described the effects of cake in lurid, pantomime terms that wouldn't have convinced a 14-year-old ingenue.
  • (4) The lurid crotch-grabbing routine has, admittedly, been refined.
  • (5) For more than two weeks, the prince and his advisers have been wrestling with how to handle what they have described as “lurid and deeply personal” allegations.
  • (6) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (7) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (8) Indeed, fresh evidence of the kind of procedures to which some of those seeking asylum have been subjected was highlighted just a few days after the speech when leaked Home Office documents revealed that lurid questions had been asked of some claimants by Home Office officials.
  • (9) Reading the first, I felt like I did as a child when I accepted a luridly illustrated magazine about the end of the world from a Jehovah's Witness because I thought it was a comic.
  • (10) I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Welch, 28, told a reporter from the New York Times , adding: “I regret how I handled the situation.” Welch was arrested on Sunday at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which became the subject of lurid conspiracy theories after it was mentioned in the personal emails of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, published by WikiLeaks.
  • (11) The 1970s then saw Spark flitting edgily between a harsh, lurid satire and something close to the French nouveau roman.
  • (12) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
  • (13) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
  • (14) It has taken place largely in the shadows, save for the odd glitzy press conference or unveiling of celebrity backers, and lacked the drama of dawn raids in five star Zurich hotels or lurid tales of bribes and backhanders.
  • (15) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
  • (16) Yet the only sea here is one of constant traffic, dominated by deregulated buses painted colours brighter and more lurid than anything found beside or beneath the ocean.
  • (17) When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
  • (18) The reporting tends to concentrate on lurid details.
  • (19) And here Miliband is convinced that George Osborne blundered in December by committing the Tories to cuts that would, in the Labour leader’s lurid terms, amount to “shredding the NHS” and other vital services.
  • (20) Unless we fundamentally reshape out economy we will only be able ever to compensate people for unfairness and inequality.” Painting as lurid a picture of the Tory spending plans as possible he will also say: “This is now a fight for the soul of our country.