livid

Meaning

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

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Hyphenated as
li‧vid
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɪvɪd/
Etymology

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”).

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