livid

Meaning

1. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
2. Pale, pallid.
3. (informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

Synonyms

pale

ashen

furious

black and blue

blanched

bloodless

blue-black

white

lead-colored

bluish

purple

black-and-blue

lurid

pale blue

pallid

pasty

pasty-faced

raging

shirty

violet

wan

waxen

white livered

wrathful

ireful

paly

grayish-blue

angry

😠

blue-gray

blue-grey

cadaveric

cadaverous

colorless

colourless

crimson

enraged

incensed

infuriated

irate

leaden

Translations

livido

lívido

πελιδνός

wütend

lívido

fahl

rabbia

💢

pálido

ωχρός

φουριόζος

livide

pàl·lid

fuchsteufelswild

razend

furibondo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɪvɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: livid

Cognate with Old English: slā

Cognate with Welsh: lliw

Cognate with Old Irish: li

Cognate with Lithuanian: slyvas

Cognate with Russian: -

Cognate with Church Slavic: -

In summary

From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin līvidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from līveō (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliwēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). See also Old English slā (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic слива (sliva, “plum”).