Meaning of LIVID
| Pronunciation: | | 'livid
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- [adj] (informal) furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"
- [adj] (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; "livid lightning streaked the sky"; "a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day"- E.A.Poe
- [adj] ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
- [adj] discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"
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| | Synonyms: | | angry, ashen, black-and-blue, blanched, bloodless, colorless, colourless, injured, light, white |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Liv"id\, a. [L. lividus, from livere to be of a blush
color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.]
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | achromatic, achromic, acier, amethystine, anemic, angered, angry, ashen, ashy, azure, azurean, azure-blue, azure-colored, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, black and blue, blanched, bled white, bloodless, blue, bluish, browned-off, cadaverous, canescent, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, corpselike, cross, cyanean, dapple, dappled, dappled-gray, dapple-gray, dark-blue, dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, deep-blue, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, doughy, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusky, dusty, eerie, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, grayed, gray-green, grayish, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, griseous, grisly, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gruesome, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, iron-gray, lackluster, lavender, leaden, lead-gray, light-blue, lightish-blue, lilac, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mad, magenta, mat, mauve, mealy, mortuary, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, muddy, mulberry, murky, neutral, orchid, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pansy-purple, pasty, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pissed, pissed-off, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous, Quaker-colored, raisin-colored, riled up, sad, sallow, sapphire, sapphirine, sensationalistic, sickly, silver, silvered, silver-gray, silvery, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, sore, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, sultry, tabloid, tallow-faced, taupe, ticked off, toneless, turquoise, uncanny, uncolored, unearthly, violaceous, violet, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up |
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