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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIV'ID, a. [L. lividus; from liveo, to be black and blue.]
Black and blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.
Upon my livid lips bestow a kiss.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, livid, 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, livid]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: French livide, from Latin lividus, from liv?re to be blue; akin to Welsh lliw color and probably to Russian sliva plum Date: 1622 1. discolored by bruising ; black-and-blue <the livid traces of the sharp scourges — Abraham Cowley> 2. ashen, pallid <this cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet — Walt Whitman> 3. reddish <a fan of gladiolas blushed livid under the electric letters — Truman Capote> 4. very angry ; enraged <was livid at his son's disobedience> • lividity noun • lividness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 colloq. furiously angry. 2 a of a bluish leaden colour. b discoloured as by a bruise. Derivatives: lividity n. lividly adv. lividness n. Etymology: F livide or L lividus f. livere be bluish

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Livid Liv"id, 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 by contusion. --Cowper. There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone who is livid is extremely angry. (INFORMAL) I am absolutely livid about it... She is livid that I have invited Dick. = furious ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 2. Something that is livid is an unpleasant dark purple or red colour. The scarred side of his face was a livid red. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Discolored (as flesh by a bruise), black and blue, lead-colored, gray-blue.

Moby Thesaurus

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