Meaning

adjective anemic looking from illness or emotion; ; ; ; ; - Mary W. Shelley

adjective (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; ; - E.A.Poe

adjective furiously angry

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- Proto-Indo-European *(s)lih₃-wó-der. Proto-Italic *slīwēō Latin līveō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin līvidusder. Middle French lividebor. Middle English livid English livid From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin līvidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from līveō (“be of a bluish color…

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