livid

  • (s) 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
    ashen, blanched, bloodless, white,
  • (s) (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
  • (s) furiously angry
    • willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid
  • (s) discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
    • beaten black and blue
    • livid bruises
    black-and-blue,

Synonyms

ashen blanched bloodless white black-and-blue

Words of close approximity

live Livy
liven liver
lividity lividly lividness