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Adjective: livid  li-vid
  1. Feeling or showing extreme anger
    "wilful stupidity makes him absolutely livid";
    - irate, ireful, furious, steaming [informal], fuming, seething, hopping mad [informal], apoplectic [informal]
     
  2. Anaemic looking from illness or emotion
    "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death";
    - ashen, blanched, bloodless, white
     
  3. (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"
     
  4. Discoloured by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
    "livid bruises";
    - black-and-blue

See also: angry, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], cross, injured, light

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