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Definitions: Livid |
LividAdjective1. Ash-colored or 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". 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. (informal) furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid". 4. Discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "livid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Livid \Liv"id\, adjective. [Latin expression lividus, from livere to be of blush color, to be black and blue: compare to the French expression livide.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LIVID | English | Language Identification and Voice IDentification | Computer - Computer - (Linux, org.) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LividSynonyms: ashen (adj), black-and-blue (adj), blanched (adj), bloodless (adj), white (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Livid |
| English words defined with "livid": ashen ♦ Badiaga, blanched, bloodless ♦ Entoloma lividum ♦ Hemorrhoids, Hippocratic face ♦ lividly ♦ Pelioma, Petechiae, Petechial fever ♦ Suggillate, Suggillation ♦ white. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "livid": Lightning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "livid": Pelioma. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Livid" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (green, livid). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The candles are lit, the band is playing, and as the force-shielded dome above us slides apart, revealing a dark and sullen sky, hung with the ancient light of livid, swollen stars, I can see that we are in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse! (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Livid Flame (1914) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He raises his eyes, but sees only the livid clouds. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His whole body was shaking with fright, his arm was shaking and his crumpled burning livid hand shook like a loose leaf in the air. |
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| "Livid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Livid" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 131 | 27,855 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "livid": ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
livid | 38 |
kitten livid | 17 |
livid lyrics | 5 |
festival livid | 3 |
band livid | 3 |
band livid winnipeg | 2 |
2003 livid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "livid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dim, dingy, ghastly, light, pale, pallid, paly, peaked, wan), i verdhë (cadaverous, Daffodil, daft, flaxen, icterus, jaundice, jaundiced, pale, stramineous, xanthous, yellow), i skuqur (erubescent, flush, fried, glowing, red, red-hot), i plumbtë, i nxirë (blackened, smoky, sooty), i murrëtyer, i hirtë (cinerary, grey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غاضب (angry, beside himself, cross, dandified, enraged, exasperating, furious, furred, glaring, grim, grumpy, indignant, irate, narky, pink, revolting, stuffy, sullen, wrathful, wroth), أزرق رمادي, شاحب (bloodless, colorless, colourless, greyish, haggard, insular, leaden, mealy, pale, palish, pallid, paly, pasty faced, peaky, sallow, sick, sickly, wan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | със синини, сивосинкав (perse), разярен (enraged, furious, irate, rampageous, savage, thundery, wrathful), вбесен (red-hot, waxy, wild), посинял (blue, purple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 苍白 (Pale, Whiteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sinalý (ashen, pallid), rozlícený, namodralý (bluish), nafialovìlý (mauve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amarant (amaranth, livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kleine majer (livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوفته (Spent), کبودشده , کبود (Gray), سربی رنگ (Leaden), خاکستری رنگ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kohenevarevonhäntä (livid amaranth, wild blite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | livide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fahl (faded, pale, pallid, sallow, wan), bleifarben (lead-colored, leaden, lividly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαυρικίτρινοσ, πελιδνόσ (white livered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כחול אפור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kékes (blue, bluish), hamuszínű, ólomszínű (leaden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | livido (ashen, black and blue, bruise, lurid), paonazzo (purple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 青藍色 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいらんしょく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lheeah-ghorrym (blue-grey, glaucous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | gusten, bleik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ividlay lívido (blue, gherkin, lurid, pale, pallid, perse, sallow, tallowy, wan), pálido (ashen, ashy, blank, chalky, colorless, colourless, Gray, grey, honeysuckle, liner, lurid, mealy bug, off colour, offence, pale, pallid, pasty, peaked, perse, sallow, sickly, tallowy, wan, washed out, white-headed), exposição pecuária (cattle show). (various references) livid (green), vânãt (bluish grey, violet-blue), plumburiu (leaden), de o culoare cadavericã, învineţit (blue). (various references) синюшнобледный, мертвенно-бледный (pallid), ливидный, лиловато-синий, бедный (beggarly, hand-to-mouth, impecunious, lean, low-lived, miserable, one horse, penurious, poor, poverty stricken, poverty-stricken). (various references) pomodreo (bluish), modar (blue). (various references) lívido (lurid). (various references) askgrå (ashen). (various references) โกรธ (anger, angry, miffed), สีเทาฟ้า, ซีด (ashy). (various references) mosmor (black and blue), morarmış (black, black and blue, blue), kurşuni (dark grey, leaden). (various references) бузково-синій. (various references) xám xịt (drab, mousy, subfusc), xám ngoẹt tái nhợt, tím ruột, tái mét (ghastly, lurid), giận tái người. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lividi, livido, lividus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "livid": lividities, lividity, lividly, lividness, lividnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Livid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eivind, ivid, lavad, lavid, layed, levid, libid, lific, liiad, liid, Limid, lirid, Livadia, livend, livi, livia, livide, livin, Livio, livis, livit, Liviu, livo, livod, lovid, lovind, Ludvik, lvd, lvi, lvid, lvii, lviii, lxvii, lxviii. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "livid" (pronounced li"vud) |
| 4 | -i" v u d | vivid. |
| 3 | -v u d | avid, fervid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-v" | |
-2 letters: lid. | |
-3 letters: id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-v" | |
+2 letters: diluvia, invalid, lividly, vividly. | |
+3 letters: deviling, devilish, devilkin, dilative, dilutive, diluvial, diluvian, diluvion, diluvium, dividual, divinely, invalids, liveried, lividity, midlives, mislived, ovicidal, validity, vilified, vilipend, viscidly. | |
+4 letters: civilised, civilized, declivity, devilfish, devilkins, devilling, devilries, diluvions, diluviums, dividable, dividedly, divisible, divulging, driveline, driveling, evildoing, invalided, invalidly, inveigled, khedivial, larvicide, lividness, veridical, videlicet, vilipends, viricidal, virucidal, vitalised, vitalized, vitrioled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 76 69 64 |
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