livid
from
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}]
from
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
199 Moby Thesaurus words for "livid":
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, amethystine, anemic,
angered, angry, ashen, ashy, azure, azure-blue, azure-colored,
azurean, azured, azureous, beryl-blue, berylline, black and blue,
blanched, bled white, bloodless, blue, bluish, browned-off,
cadaverous, canescent, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent,
chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless, corpselike, cross,
cyanean, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark-blue,
dead, deadly, deadly pale, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale,
deep-blue, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal, doughy,
dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dusky, dusty, eerie,
etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint,
fallow, flat, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, glaucescent, glaucous,
gloomy, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab,
gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish,
griseous, grisly, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, gruesome, haggard,
hueless, hypochromic, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful,
iron-gray, lackluster, lavender, lead-gray, leaden, light-blue,
lightish-blue, lilac, lurid, lusterless, macabre, mad, magenta,
mat, mauve, mealy, mortuary, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
muddy, mulberry, murky, neutral, orchid, pale, pale as death,
pale-faced, pallid, pansy-purple, pasty, pavonian, pavonine,
peacock-blue, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pissed, pissed-off,
plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply,
purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous,
raisin-colored, riled up, sad, sallow, sapphire, sapphirine,
sensationalistic, sickly, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery,
sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray,
smoky, sober, somber, sore, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored,
sultry, tabloid, tallow-faced, taupe, ticked off, toneless,
turquoise, uncanny, uncolored, unearthly, violaceous, violet, wan,
washed-out, waxen, weak, weird, whey-faced, white, worked up,
wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up
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