Livid - Definition

adj 1: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned
ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak
with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock";
"lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley;
"lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn:
ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]
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"- E.A.Poe
3: furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely
livid"
4: discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten
black and blue"; "livid bruises" [syn: black-and-blue,
livid]