livid

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Meaning furious; also, bluish-gray in color

Memory hook he flips his LID: LIV-ID. When the goat eats his prize pie, Farmer Gus is so furious he flips his lid. He is livid.

Dad was livid when he saw the scratch on his new car.

In context The coach was not merely annoyed but livid; his face turned red, and he kicked the water bucket across the field after the third missed goal.

Similar furious, enraged, fuming, outraged

Opposite calm, pleased

From Latin lividus, “bluish, black and blue,” the color of a bruise; the sense “furious” came much later.

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