livid

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: liv=id

CIDE DICTIONARY

livid, 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 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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Extremely angry; enraged; infuriated.  [PJC]
•  Pallid; ashen; -- of the skin.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

livid, adj.
1 colloq. furiously angry.
2 a of a bluish leaden colour. b discoloured as by a bruise.

Derivative

lividity n. lividly adv. lividness n.

Etymology

F livide or L lividus f. livere be bluish

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

livid

Gray

N gray, neutral tint, silver, pepper and salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille, Payne's gray, black, gray, grey, iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan, calcareous, limy, favillous, silver, silvery, silvered, ashen, ashy, cinereous, cineritious, grizzly, grizzled, slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored, cool.

Purple

N purple, blue and red, bishop's purple, aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst, purpure, heliotrope, lividness, lividity, purple, violet, ultraviolet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve, livid.