anemic looking from illness or emotion; a face turned ashen; the invalids 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
(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
furiously angry; willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid'
discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; beaten black and blue; livid bruises
[ Syn: black-and-blue ]