livid meaning and definition

LIVID adjective

Definition of livid (adjective)

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"
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: black-and-blue