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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"
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.



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"Dim" Quotes from Famous Books



... the only woman on earth. It is this irrevocable fusion of two lives, and the network of responsibilities arising from an act less simple than it seems, that constitute the strength, the charm, the tragedy of marriage: and a dim foreknowledge of its complexity dawned upon Lenox during his penitential progress into a land of ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew Old Nod, ...
— Poems of To-Day: an Anthology • Various

... which I had traversed in former days, on grand court occasions in the time of Ferdinand VII., when they were glittering with all the splendor of a court, we paused in a great saloon, with high-vaulted ceiling incrusted with florid devices in porcelain, and hung with silken tapestry, but all in dim twilight, like the rest of the palace. At one end of the saloon the door opened to an almost interminable range of other chambers, through which, at a distance, we had a glimpse of some indistinct figures in black. They ...
— Washington Irving • Charles Dudley Warner

... attention to the passing scenery as his limited view permitted, in order that he might be able to find his way back to the railroad if it should prove necessary. This did not promise to be difficult. On either side the dim moonlight showed an unbroken succession of trees, and also that the robbers were continuing in one ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs

... the schoolmaster's frolicsome deportment was apparent to the soldier when he followed Barnes into the kitchen, where, in a secluded corner, near the hospitable oven, in the dim light of a tallow dip, stood a steaming punch bowl. A log smoldered in the fireplace, casting on the floor the long shadows of the andirons, while a swinging pot was reflected on the ceiling like a mighty eclipse. Numerous recesses, containing pans and plates that gleamed ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham


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