# livid

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈlɪvɪd/ · frequency rank #29,348

## Definitions
1. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
2. Pale, pallid.
3. So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **Lviv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-lviv)
- **Livy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-livy)
- **loved** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-loved)
- **lucid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-lucid)
- **Lovin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-lovin)
- **livin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-livin)
- **lurid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-lurid)
- **living** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/livid-vs-living)
- **lid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lid-vs-livid)
- **Liv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/liv-vs-livid)
- **live** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/live-vs-livid)
- **laid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/laid-vs-livid)
- **lied** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lied-vs-livid)
- **Levi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/levi-vs-livid)
- **lind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lind-vs-livid)
- **lives** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lives-vs-livid)
- **lived** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lived-vs-livid)
- **liked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/liked-vs-livid)
- **limit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/limit-vs-livid)
- **liver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/liver-vs-livid)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ilvid`, `liivd`, `livdi`, `lividd`, `livvid`, `llivid`, `lviid`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/livid