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Dim   /dɪm/   Listen
Dim

adjective
(compar. dimmer; superl. dimmest)
1.
Lacking in light; not bright or harsh.  Synonym: subdued.  "Subdued lights and soft music"
2.
Lacking clarity or distinctness.  Synonyms: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy.  "Only a faint recollection" , "Shadowy figures in the gloom" , "Saw a vague outline of a building through the fog" , "A few wispy memories of childhood"
3.
Made dim or less bright.  Synonym: dimmed.  "Dimmed headlights" , "We like dimmed lights when we have dinner"  Antonym: undimmed.
4.
Offering little or no hope.  Synonyms: black, bleak.  "Prospects were bleak" , "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" , "Took a dim view of things"
5.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.  Synonyms: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow.  "Never met anyone quite so dim" , "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick" , "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions" , "He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse" , "Worked with the slow students"
verb
(past & past part. dimmed; pres. part. dimming)
1.
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.  Synonym: dip.
2.
Become dim or lusterless.
3.
Make dim or lusterless.
4.
Make dim by comparison or conceal.  Synonym: blind.
5.
Become vague or indistinct.  Synonyms: blur, slur.  Antonym: focus.



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"Dim" Quotes from Famous Books



... on his breast and waited. No one moved or spoke. At the far end of the room, the candles dripped one by one on the bier, falling lower and lower. Occasionally the wax flared up, lighting the darkness; then all was dim. ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs
... D'Arcy's voice joined with Terry's shouting to them to come back? They had, however, got so far on their way that, even had they been certain of the fact, they would not have liked to do so. On they at all events went. Philip kept his eyes fixed on his own hill, but the outline soon became very dim. Thicker and thicker fell the snow; still they were in ...
— The Log House by the Lake - A Tale of Canada • William H. G. Kingston
... a vein of sadness and of mourning. Neither Aztotl the noble, nor Ixtli the gallant, could so soon be forgotten. And more than one pair of eyes grew dim, more than one voice turned husky, as mention was made of both life and ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.
... sometimes went for solitary expeditions to various "sights" of London, and, as usual in such expeditions, had never once met anybody she knew. She had gone rather early one summer morning to Westminster Abbey, and was walking slowly through the dim cloistered shades, enjoying the coolness and the quietness, when she came full upon Alan Walcott, who ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... Wallace's house on three occasions; the first two were when I was only about eight or nine years old, and my recollections of him at that time are therefore necessarily somewhat dim. Certain things, however, have stuck in my memory. I went there quite prepared to see a very venerable and imposing-looking old gentleman, and filled in advance with much awe and respect for him. As regards his personal appearance I was by no mean disappointed, as his tall, ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant


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