livid
adjective
1. anemic looking from illness or emotion; pale.
- a face livid with shock
- lips...livid with the hue of death
Similar word(s): colorless, colourless, ashen, blanched, bloodless, 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
Similar word(s): light
3. furiously angry
- stupidity makes him absolutely livid
Similar word(s): angry
4. discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
- livid bruises
Similar word(s): injured
Sentences with livid as an adjective:
- When all the surroundings were thus rendered as brilliant as possible, so that the corpse looked more livid and ghastly by comparison, I seated myself once more.