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[ UK /lˈɪvɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪvɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. furiously angry
    willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid
  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
  3. anemic looking from illness or emotion
    tried to speak with bloodless lips
    a face white with rage
    the invalid's blanched cheeks
    a face livid with shock
    lips...livid with the hue of death
    a face turned ashen
    lips white with terror
  4. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
    beaten black and blue
    livid bruises

How To Use livid In A Sentence

  • The cats would be livid, showing their displeasure by sulkily shunning their food and refusing to climb into bed for a goodnight cuddle. SANDS OF TIME
  • One angry garage owner said: 'I am livid. The Sun
  • Off to the Charity Ball is a firm favourite, with its livid pastels against bright white, the skulking figures throwing dark, tactile shadows onto the projecting shelf below.
  • She said: 'I was absolutely livid. Times, Sunday Times
  • She could hardly bear to look on the livid face, the closed eyes, the thin dilated nostrils, and the painful expression of powerlessness that met her sight. The Semi-Attached Couple
  • In his work, which has just gone on sale in Italy, Tornielli explains that the “Führer” was livid after the signing of the armistice between the Badoglio government and the Allies on Sept. 8, 1943, and ordered the SS to destroy the Holy See with “blood and fire.” Giving God a bad name « BuzzMachine
  • Crowe, his head had almost resumed its natural dimensions, but then his whole face was so covered with a livid suffusion, his nose appeared so flat, and his lips so tumefied, that he might very well have passed for a Caffre or Ethiopian. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • Armstrong himself said the group was "livid" with the lengthy seventh stage Friday that concluded with a dangerous and steep descent through the rain. Cavendish wins 9th stage of Giro amid rider protest
  • They were also concerned that Mrs Holland had a livid bruise on her jaw and had lost a tooth as a result of an assault the previous week.
  • It's a saying that makes women livid with frustration and anger at the unfairness of life, while men can remain smugly secure in their bald spot.
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