livid
pronunciation
How to pronounce livid in British English:
UK [ˈlɪvɪd]
How to pronounce livid in American English:
US [ˈlɪvɪd]
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- Adjective:
- ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion
- (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity
- furiously angry
- discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
Word Origin
- livid
- livid: see sloe
- livid (adj.)
- early 15c., "of a bluish-leaden color," from Middle French livide and directly from Latin lividus "of a bluish color, black and blue," figuratively "envious, spiteful, malicious," from livere "be bluish," earlier *slivere, from PIE *sliwo-, suffixed form of root *(s)leie- "bluish" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic and Russian sliva "plum;" Lithuanian slywas "plum;" Old Irish li, Welsh lliw "color, splendor," Old English sla "sloe"). The sense of "furiously angry" (1912) is from the notion of being livid with rage.
Example
- 1. Livid because it was brad who set this .
- 2. He 'd be livid if he found out what you 're doing .
- 3. Her friend 's mother was livid .
- 4. Has me more than livid .
- 5. Her arm had livid bruise where it was hit when she fell .