Livid

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Livid \Liv"id\ (l[i^]v"[i^]d), a. [L. lividus, from livere to be
     of a blush color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.]
     1. Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored,
        as flesh may be from a contusion. --Cowper.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid
              spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted.
                                                    --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Extremely angry; enraged; infuriated.
        [PJC]
  
     3. Pallid; ashen; -- of the skin.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  livid
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {ashen}, {blanched}, {bloodless},
               {white}]
       2: (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
       3: furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely
          livid"
       4: discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten
          black and blue"; "livid bruises" [syn: {black-and-blue}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  199 Moby Thesaurus words for "livid":
     Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, amethystine, anemic,
     angered, angry, ashen, ashy, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored,
     azurean, 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, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-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,
     gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish,
     griseous, grisly, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gruesome, haggard,
     hueless, hypochromic, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful,
     iron-gray, lackluster, lavender, lead-gray, leaden, 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,
     raisin-colored, riled up, sad, sallow, sapphire, sapphirine,
     sensationalistic, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, 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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  LIVID
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