different between livid vs fuming

English

Etymology

From Middle English livid, livide, from Old French livide, from Latin l?vidus (“bluish, livid; envious”), from l?ve? (“be of a bluish color or livid; envy”), from Proto-Italic *sliw??, from Proto-Indo-European *sliwo-, suffixed form of *(s)leh?y- (“bluish”). See also Old English sl? (“sloe”), Welsh lliw (“splendor, color”), Old Irish li, Lithuanian slyvas (“plum”), and Russian and Old Church Slavonic ????? (sliva, “plum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v?d/
• Hyphenation: li?vid

Adjective

livid (comparative livider or more livid, superlative lividest or most livid)

1. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
2. Pale, pallid.
3. (informal) So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious.

Synonyms

• (dark, bluish appearance): See also Thesaurus:bluish and Thesaurus:purplish
• (pallid): See also Thesaurus:pallid
• (very angry): See also Thesaurus:angry

Derived terms

• lividity
• lividly
• lividness

Translations

See also

• scorch

Middle English

Alternative forms

• livide

Etymology

Middle French livide, from Latin l?vidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?vid(?)/, /?livid(?)/

Adjective

livid

1. livid, blue (color)

Descendants

• English: livid

References

• “l??vid(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Noun

livid (uncountable)

1. livid, blue (color)

Descendants

• English: livid

References

• “l??vid(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French livide, from Latin lividus.

Adjective

livid m or n (feminine singular livid?, masculine plural livizi, feminine and neuter plural livide)

1. livid

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju?m??/

Verb

fuming

1. present participle of fume

Adjective

fuming (comparative more fuming, superlative most fuming)

1. That fumes.
2. Very angry.

Noun

fuming (plural fumings)

1. The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
   • 1840, The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

     He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.

   • 1949, New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide

     Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.

   • 1986, John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness

     And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.

Derived terms

• fuming sulphuric acid