Lurid

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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

3. Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.