livid Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite anemic looking from illness or emotion
    blanched; bloodless; ashen; white.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite (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. adjective satellite furiously angry
    • willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid
  4. adjective satellite discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
    black-and-blue.
    • beaten black and blue
    • livid bruises

WordNet

Liv"id adjective
Etymology
L. lividus, from livere to be of a blush color, to be black and blue: cf. F. livide.
Definitions
  1. Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion. Cowper.
    There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted. Bacon.

Webster 1913