livid

[livĀ·id]

If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish gray" or "slate colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea.

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Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

Adjective S.
furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

Adjective S.
(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

Adjective S.
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

Adjective S.
discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"


a.
Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.


Livid

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.

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

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