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livid
- /ˈlɪvɪd/
Rhymes with -ɪvɪd
Where it comes from
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”).
adjective livider · more livid · lividest · most livid
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Having a dark, bluish appearance.
Jean Raynaud, cook, aged about twenty years, of a melancholy temperament, had his whole body covered with a purple livid colour, and a bubo under his left axilla; […] His lungs were covered with little livid ſpots, ſoft and pliant, without any hardneſs in their ſubſtance. The liver was larger and ha
Similar: bluey, bluish, caesious, cerulescent, purplish, purply
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Pale, pallid.
Ulcers having had their beginning during a Diſeaſe, or before it, growing livid, pale or dry, plainly indicate the proximity of Death, their livid or pale colour being not only the ſign of Cholerick, or Atrabiliary humours cauſing them, but alſo manifeſting an extinction of the natural heat.
Similar: ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, bleak, bloodless, chalky, exsanguious, ghastly, grey, livid
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So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.
Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they were merry with the goose—a supposition at which the two young Cratchits became livid! All sorts of horrors were supposed.
Similar: agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, cheesed off, choleric
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: angry, bloodless, colourless, blanched, colorless, white, light, black-and-blue, ashen, injured, furious, enraged, irate, upset, mad, pale
Translations
Every language
adj having a dark, bluish appearance
| Español | lívido |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 鐵青 /铁青 tiěqīng |
| Français | livide |
| Deutsch | blau |
| Ελληνικά | μολυβής molyvís, μελανιασμένος melaniasménos |
| Русский | си́не-се́рый síne-séryj, багро́вый bagróvyj |
adj very angry, furious
| 中文 | 怒氣沖沖 /怒气冲冲 nùqìchōngchōng, 大發雷霆 /大发雷霆 dàfāléitíng |
|---|---|
| Français | furieux |
| Deutsch | blass vor Wut, wütend, fuchsteufelswild, wutschäumend, rasend |
| Italiano | furibondo, furibonda |
| Ελληνικά | μαινόμενος mainómenos, έξαλλος éxallos |
| Русский | я́ростный járostnyj, злой zloj |
Talk about this word "livid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/livid. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. livid. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/livid "livid." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/livid.Cite this
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