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May 26, 2012
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Synonyms for livid

Adjective

1. ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white, colorless (vs. colorful), colourless
usage: 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. livid, light (vs. dark)
usage: (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. livid, angry (vs. unangry)
usage: furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"
4. black-and-blue, livid, injured (vs. uninjured)
usage: discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"
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