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livid

li·vid

UK/ˈlɪvɪd/ US/ˈlɪvɪd/ uncommon informal

adjective

1.

ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion

  • “a face turned ashen”
  • “the invalid”
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  • “- Mary W. Shelley;”
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
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3.

furiously angry

  • “willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid”
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4.

discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin

  • “beaten black and blue”
  • “livid bruises”
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Origin

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”).

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