It's the word of the day for February 15th.
Today's word is livid, spelled L-I-V-I-D.
Livid is an adjective.
Livid means very angry, enraged, or furious.
It may also describe things having a dark, purplish, or reddish color.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Forbes by David Carlin.
Activists and vulnerable nations were understandably livid at the failure to garner stronger commitments on the reduction of fossil fuel use,
noting that fossil fuels are barely referenced despite being the primary driver of global emissions.
The word livid has a colorful history.
The Latin adjective livere, meaning to be blue,
gave rise to the Latin lividus, meaning discolored by bruising.
French adopted the word along with its meaning as livid,
which English borrowed in the 15th century as livid.
For a few centuries,
the English word described bruised flesh as well as a shade of dark gray and other colors having a dark grayish tone.
By the 18th century, people were livid,
first by being pale with extreme emotion, as in a pale, lean,
livid face from Henry James, and then by being reddish with the same As in,
his face glared with a livid red from James Francis Barrett.
By the late 19th century, a livid person could also be furiously angry,