Dictionary Entry

livid

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈlɪvɪd/Used In Literature ↓

Having a dark, bluish appearance.

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Common Phrases

. lividface lividhue lividcolour lividred lividspots lividlivid becamelivid face

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Poetry examples for “livid”

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At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook,
A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look;
She sees, and trembles at the approaching ill,

Only my lips still turn to you,
My livid lips that cry, Repent!
O weary life, O weary Lent,

Lest the Phantasm -- prove the Mistake --
And the livid Surprise

Explored her, limb by limb, and feared to find
So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.
With flattery now he seeks her mind to move,

We could not see each other's face,
But with that pale and livid light
That made us strangers in our sight:

The paly moon rose in the livid east.
And ’mong the cliffs disclos’d a stately form

Helen's the hair shuts out from me
Verona's livid skies;
Gypsy the lips I press; and see

Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes
Slowly, to one long livid oozing plain
Closed down by the strange eyeless heavens. He lies;

Is hung with steam's far-blowing livid streamers.
Lost into God, as lights in light, we fly,

Their desolation in the truce of dawn,
Murdering the livid hours that grope for peace.