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say it: LIV-id
livid is an adjective meaning "anemic looking from illness or emotion". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(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”
discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
“beaten black and blue”
“livid bruises”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for livid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.