livid
Other forms: lividest
If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish-gray" or "slate-colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea.
Livid, even when it means "bluish-gray," has the sense of something not quite right. If the sky is livid, there's something ominous about it. Similarly, if your skin is livid, there's something wrong — you're either covered with bruises or you're at death's door, anemic and ashen. But livid is used most often to describe fury. What if you waited in line 15 hours and the person in front of you got the last seat for the hottest concert of the summer? You'd be livid!
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furiously angry“willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid”
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Synonyms:
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angry
feeling or showing anger
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angry
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anemic looking from illness or emotion
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discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
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(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”
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Synonyms:
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light
characterized by or emitting light
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light
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Vocabulary lists containing livid
Running away from the slave-owning Southerland Plantation, twelve-year-old Homer and his seven-year-old sister Ada head to the swamp, where they find some unexpected help.
With a name that translates into Stout Heart, fifteen-year-old Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of the Polynesian island of Hikueru, is determined to conquer his fear of the sea.
In the Kingdom of Mangkon, twelve-year-old Sodsai Mudawan lies about her family's background so that she could have a chance at a bright future.
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