| 单词 | livid |
| 释义 | livid (once / 1695 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish-gray" or "slate-colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea. Livid, even when it means "bluish-gray," has the sense of something not quite right. If the sky is livid, there's something ominous about it. Similarly, if your skin is livid, there's something wrong — you're either covered with bruises or you're at death's door, anemic and ashen. But livid is used most often to describe fury. What if you waited in line 15 hours and the person in front of you got the last seat for the hottest concert of the summer? You'd be livid! WORD FAMILYlivid: lividest, lividity, lividly, lividness+/lividity: lividities USAGE EXAMPLESLearning of this through wiretaps and surveillance, Johnson was livid. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) When she asked for copies of documents related to the potential sale, her husband was livid. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) Her father was livid, and he kicked her out of their apartment. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1 adj furiously angry 2willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid Syn angry feeling or showing anger 1adj anemic looking from illness or emotion a face livid with shock "lips... livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley Syn ashen, blanched, bloodless, white colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful 2adj discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin 3livid bruises Syn black-and-blue injured harmed adj (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 Syn light characterized by or emitting light |
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