livid (adj.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: ashen , blanched , bloodless , 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 ]

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