livid

See also lívid

English

Etymology

From Latin līvidus (“blueish, livid; envious”), from līveō (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Old Latin *slivere, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leie- (“bluish”). Also see Old English sla (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slywas (“plum”), Russian and Old Church Slavonic сливовый (“plum”).

Adjective

livid (comparative more livid, superlative most livid)

1. (informal) Furiously angry.
2. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.

3. Pallid.

Translations

furious

• Danish: rasende (da)
• Dutch: razend (nl)
• Greek: μαινόμενος (el) (mainómenos) m, έξαλλος (el) (éxallos) m

• Polish: wściekły (pl)
• Russian: яростный (ru) (jarostnyj)
• Swedish: rasande (sv)

Having a dark, bluish appearance

• Greek: μολυβής (el) (molyvís) m

• Maori: pupango (mi)
• Russian: сине-серый (ru) (sine-seryj)
• Spanish: lívido (es)

pallid

• Catalan: lívid (ca)
• Danish: bleg (da)
• Dutch: bleek (nl)
• French: livide (fr)

• Greek: πελιδνός (el) (pelidnós) m, κατάχλωμος (el) (katáchlomos) m
• Spanish: lívido (es)
• Swedish: blek (sv)