livid

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livid Definition

• (s) ash-colored or 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
• (s) (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
• (s) furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"
• (s) discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"

livid Synonyms

• ashen
• black-and-blue
• blanched
• bloodless
• livid
• white