LIVID

livid

(adjective) furiously angry; ā€œwillful stupidity makes him absolutely lividā€

livid

(adjective) (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; ā€œlivid lightning streaked the skyā€; ā€œa thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural dayā€- E.A.Poe

ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white

(adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion; ā€œa face turned ashenā€; ā€œthe invalidā€™s blanched cheeksā€; ā€œtried to speak with bloodless lipsā€; ā€œa face livid with shockā€; ā€œlips...livid with the hue of deathā€- Mary W. Shelley; ā€œlips white with terrorā€; ā€œa face white with rageā€

livid, black-and-blue

(adjective) discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; ā€œbeaten black and blueā€; ā€œlivid bruisesā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

livid (comparative livider or more livid, superlative most livid)

Having a dark, bluish appearance.

Pale, pallid.

(informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious.

Synonyms

• (dark, bluish appearance): See also bluish and purplish

• (pallid): See also pallid

• (very angry): See also angry

Source: Wiktionary


Liv"id, a. Etym: [L. lividus, from livere to be of a blush color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.]

Definition: Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion. Cowper. There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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