Difference between Sensational and Lurid

SENSATIONAL vs LURID: ADJECTIVE

Outstanding; spectacular.
Arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction, especially by exaggerated or lurid details.
Of or relating to sensation.
Commanding attention
Causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion
Of or pertaining to sensation.
Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional.
Piquing or arousing the senses.
Provocative.
Exceptionally great.
Relating to or concerned in sensation

Horrible in fierceness or savagery
Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
Ghastly pale
Characterized by vivid description or explicit details that are meant to provoke or shock.
Characterized by shocking or outrageous behavior.
Bright and intense in color; vivid.
Sallow or pallid.
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic.
Shocking, horrifying.
Melodramatic.
Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
Being of a light yellow hue.
Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

Of or pertaining to sensationalism; adhering to philosophical sensationalism.
Intended, as a literary or artistic work, to excite intense emotion; appealing to the love of being moved, as a chief source of interest.
Having sensation; serving to convey sensation; sentient.
Of or pertaining to sensation; relating to or implying sensation or perception through the senses.

Pale; wan; ghastly; of the color or appearance of dull smoky flames; having the character of a light which does not show the colors of objects.
Lighted up with a ghastly glare; combining light and gloom.
In botany and zoology, having a dirty-brown color; slightly clouded.
Glaringly vivid and graphic
Marked by sensationalism

Terrific, Marvelous, Dramatic, Startling, Spectacular, Sensory, Yellow, Scandalmongering, Screaming, Arresting, Sensationalistic, Impressive, Lurid, Shocking, Stunning

Cool, Exciting, Hot, Spectacular, Dramatic, Sexy, Incendiary, Ghastly, Gruesome, Colourless, Bright, Colorless, Violent, Shocking, Sensational

Terrific, Marvelous, Dramatic, Startling, Spectacular, Sensory, Yellow, Scandalmongering, Screaming, Arresting, Sensationalistic, Impressive, Lurid, Shocking, Stunning

Cool, Exciting, Hot, Spectacular, Dramatic, Sexy, Incendiary, Ghastly, Gruesome, Colourless, Bright, Colorless, Violent, Shocking, Sensational

Sensational document is out only on TIMES NOW.
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Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so Sensational?
Murray was playing sensational for the Arizona Cardinals.
My credit is pretty good but not sensational.
This is sensational to me on two levels.
Accommodating mountain hiking boot with a sensational fit.
The most sensational trial of that other century.
Sensational events are presented in an unsensational way.
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