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Livid   /lˈɪvɪd/   Listen
Livid

adjective
1.
Anemic looking from illness or emotion.  Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, white.  "The invalid's blanched cheeks" , "Tried to speak with bloodless lips" , "A face livid with shock" , "Lips...livid with the hue of death" , "Lips white with terror" , "A face white with rage"
2.
(of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity.  "A thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day"
3.
Furiously angry.
4.
Discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin.  Synonym: black-and-blue.  "Livid bruises"



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"Livid" Quotes from Famous Books



... dark— Over a livid stretch of sky Cloud-monsters crawling like a funeral train Of huge primeval presences Stooping beneath the weight Of some enormous, rudimentary grief; While in the haunting loneliness The far sea waits and wanders, with a sound As of the ...
— The Song of the Sword - and Other Verses • W. E. Henley
... sharply, and for a moment I thought his face seemed to change from a livid white to an apoplectic red, although it may have been only the play of the weird light. When he spoke it was with no show ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... distracted. TYND. His eyes strike fire; there's need of a rope, Hegio. Don't you see how his body is spotted all over with livid spots? Black bile ...
— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus
... tugging at his heart. Porringer too was silent. The vapor hung so heavily upon the plains of marsh level with their heads that they seemed to be piercing a dense, low cloud. The light was growing stronger, but the earth still lay like a corpse, livid, dumb, cold and still. There was a chill stagnant smell ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... face grew livid; he rose, said not another word about his concerns, and slunk out of his neighbor's ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag


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