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adj
Having a dark, bluish appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bluey, bluish, caesious, cerulescent, purplish, purply
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Pale, pallid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, bleak, bloodless, chalky, exsanguious, ghastly, grey, livid, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, wan, washed out, white, whey-faced
Antonyms: none provided
adj
So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, cheesed off, choleric, cranky, cross, enraged, fit to be tied, frustrated, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grim, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ireful, ired, irritated, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, miffed, offended, pathetic, pissed off, p'd off, pissed, pissy, raging, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, spitting chips, splenetic, sore, steaming, up on one's ear, upset, vexed, waxy, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
furiously angry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity- E.A.Poe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
anemic looking from illness or emotion- Mary W. Shelley
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, white
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: black-and-blue
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology 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 or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliwēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh3y- (“bluish”). See also Old English slā (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic слива (sliva, “plum”).
Across languages
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
