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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Discolored, as from a bruise; black-and-blue.
  2. adj. Ashen or pallid: a face livid with shock.
  3. adj. Extremely angry; furious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Black and blue,like a contusion. The term is applied, with the strong exaggeration usually characterizing the use of color-names, to the color of a person “black in the face” from strangulation, or having a cold, death-like complexion from rage, fear, or suffering; or to a light which imparts a death-like aspect to the face. Thus, a face illuminated by the yellow monochromatic light produced by the burning of an alcoholic solution of common salt is said to present a livid appearance.
  2. In zoology, pale purplish-brown, more or less translucent, resembling the color of a bruised surface of flesh.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Furiously angry.
  2. adj. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
  3. adj. Pallid.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh may be from a contusion.
  2. adj. Extremely angry; enraged; infuriated.
  3. adj. Pallid; ashen; -- of the skin.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
  2. adj. furiously angry
  3. adj. anemic looking from illness or emotion
  4. adj. (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity

Etymologies

  1. Middle English livide, from Old French, from Latin līvidus, from līvēre, to be bluish; see sleiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  • Telofy “Stop! That is not spoken correcitically.�? – The Caterpillar Aug 15, 2009

  • sosheshall exactically!! Aug 15, 2009

  • born2badored I get livid at people who are rulesy, officious, or downright stubborn in the face of good advice. I use bad grammer beacuse I WANT to, not beacuse I can't help It.
    "So they say you're trouble boy
    Because you like to destroy
    All the things that bring idiots joy
    Well what's wrong with a little destruction"
    please don't be a pedant Dec 6, 2006

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