livid
Adjective Satellite
- anemic looking from illness or emotion; ; ; ; ; - Mary W. Shelley
- "a face livid with shock"
- "lips...livid with the hue of death"
- (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; ; - E.A.Poe
- "livid lightning streaked the sky"
- "a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day"
- furiously angry
- "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"
- discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
- "livid bruises"
Adj
- Having a dark, bluish appearance.
- Pale, pallid.
- So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.
Adjective
- Extremely angry; discolored, as from a bruise.
Examples
- He was livid when his opponent played ’QUIXOTIC’ for 100 points in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin līvidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from līveō (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliwēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). See also Old English slā (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic слива (sliva, “plum”).
Synonyms
ashen, black-and-blue, blanched, bloodless, white, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, ashen-faced, ashy, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blake, bleak, blood-boiling, bluey, bluish, boiling mad, caesious, cerulescent, chalky, cheesed off, choleric, cross, enraged, exsanguious, fit to be tied, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, ghastly, glimflashy, grey, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ired, ireful, irritated, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, p'd off, pale, pallid, pasty, pathetic, pissed, pissed off, pissy, purplish, purply, raging, ready to be tied, sallow, screwfaced, seething, sore, spitting chips, splenetic, steaming, up on one's ear, vexed, wan, washed out, waxy, whey-faced, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped
Scrabble Score: 9
livid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlivid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
livid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary