Synonyms of livid

livid 1 of 2

adjective

ˈli-vəd 

1

as in angry

feeling or showing anger

the boss was livid when yet another deadline was missed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• angry
• enraged
• outraged
• infuriated
• indignant
• angered
• furious
• mad
• ballistic
• infuriate
• incensed
• fuming
• sore
• irate
• apoplectic
• passionate
• annoyed
• rabid
• riled
• inflamed
• irritable
• wrathful
• hot
• steaming
• choleric
• wroth
• hot under the collar
• foaming
• blue in the face
• in a huff
• bent out of shape
• shirty
• rankled
• in a pet
• fit to be tied
• hopping mad
• ireful
• ticked
• exasperated
• in a fume
• roiled
• seething
• aggravated
• hopping
• cheesed off
• going crook
• steamed up
• horn-mad
• boiling
• resentful
• teed off
• vindictive
• riley
• bristling
• ranting
• embittered
• spiteful
• cross
• unpleasant
• antagonistic
• virulent
• vengeful
• huffy
• worked up
• acrimonious
• perturbed
• rancorous
• burning
• smoldering
• raving
• vitriolic
• bristly
• acrid
• malevolent
• distant
• sulky
• stormy
• disagreeable
• antipathetic
• sizzling
• icy
• bilious
• wrought (up)
• inimical
• petulant
• fretful
• bitter
• churlish
• peevish
• testy
• antisocial
• disapproving
• unfriendly
• belligerent
• frigid
• cold
• snappish
• cantankerous
• grumpy
• irascible
• grouchy
• touchy
• dyspeptic
• crabby
• pugnacious
• inflammable
• ornery
• querulous
• cranky
• contentious
• cool
• contrary
• piqued
• bearish
• quarrelsome
• fussy
• ill-tempered
• argumentative
• sorehead
• disputatious
• ill-humored
• put out
• quick-tempered

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• delighted
• pleased
• accepting
• happy
• agreeable
• accommodating
• friendly
• amenable
• sympathetic
• cordial
• complaisant
• satisfied
• amicable
• content
• obliging
• angerless
• calm
• tolerant
• empathetic
• pleasant
• serene
• understanding
• placid
• sweet
• kind
• tranquil
• amiable
• pacific
• peaceable
• good-natured
• affable
• genial
• easygoing
• unembittered
• good-tempered

2

as in pallid

lacking a healthy skin color

her face was livid with fear

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pallid
• pale
• paled
• ashen
• sick
• blanched
• wan
• pasty
• ashy
• lurid
• doughy
• cadaverous
• mealy
• peaked
• white
• sallow
• waxen
• sickly
• waxy
• anemic
• whitened
• sallowish
• bloodless
• white-faced
• untanned
• whey-faced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• red
• ruddy
• sanguine
• rosy
• glowing
• florid
• blooming
• flush
• pink
• flushed
• blushing
• rubicund
• full-blooded

lividity

2 of 2

noun

li-ˈvi-də-tē 

as in indignation

an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something

the level of the boss's lividity was something I'd never seen outside of cartoons—I almost expected steam to rise out of his head

Synonyms & Similar Words

• indignation
• anger
• outrage
• wrath
• fury
• rage
• mood
• wrathfulness
• irritation
• irritability
• madness
• exasperation
• spleen
• choler
• contempt
• lividness
• hostility
• bitterness
• slow burn
• jealousy
• resentment
• ire
• furor
• angriness
• annoyance
• malice
• temper
• birse
• jaundice
• mad
• venom
• grudge
• outburst
• bile
• spite
• animosity
• biliousness
• rancor
• enmity
• vexation
• malevolence
• aggravation
• vindictiveness
• antagonism
• acrimony
• vengefulness
• virulence
• embitterment
• warmth
• irateness
• antipathy
• pugnacity
• heat
• crankiness
• belligerence
• irascibility
• envy
• delirium
• vitriol
• contentiousness
• pique
• contrariness
• rise
• dudgeon
• road rage
• quarrelsomeness
• querulousness
• flare
• blowup
• orneriness
• acrimoniousness
• pet
• pugnaciousness
• hot-headedness
• dander
• passion
• empoisonment
• ruffle
• disputatiousness
• air rage
• irascibleness
• huff
• flare-up
• chafe

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pleasure
• delight
• patience
• forbearance
• calmness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of livid

Adjective

Texts, screen grabs, recordings and other records recovered from a search of Rinderknecht’s cellphones and presented in court portrayed a man who was by turns lonely and livid, angry at billionaires and ex-romantic partners while seemingly scared about his own declining mental health. — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026

Most now seem to agree that Bairstow was careless and Carey was opportunistic, but at the time the England team were livid — a fury that continued into the lunch room. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 June 2026

Noun

Dual lividity is a gravitational settling of blood in the dependent parts of the body. — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026

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