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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. anemic looking from illness or emotion;
- Example: "a face turned ashen"
- Example: "the invalid's blanched cheeks"
- Example: "tried to speak with bloodless lips"
- Example: "a face livid with shock"
- Example: "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley
- Example: "lips white with terror"
- Example: "a face white with rage"
[syn: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]

2. (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity;
- Example: "livid lightning streaked the sky"
- Example: "a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day"- E.A.Poe

3. furiously angry;
- Example: "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

4. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin;
- Example: "beaten black and blue"
- Example: "livid bruises"
[syn: black-and-blue, livid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Livid \Liv"id\ (l[i^]v"[i^]d), a. [L. lividus, from livere to be
   of a blush color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.]
   1. 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.
                                                  --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Extremely angry; enraged; infuriated.
      [PJC]

   3. Pallid; ashen; -- of the skin.
      [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

livid
    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]