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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

... ardent wish, yet, my dear, dearest Lamballe, I leave it to yourself to act as your feelings dictate. Many about us profess to see the future as clear as the sun at noon-day. But, I confess, my vision is still dim. I cannot look into events with the security of others—who confound logic with their wishes. The King, Elizabeth, and all of us, are anxious for your return. But it would grieve us sorely for you to come back to such scenes as you have already witnessed. Judge and act from your own impressions. ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... The hum of the old town came to her ear softened by distance and mingled with the patter of the fountain and the music of birds singing in the trees overhead. Agnes tried to busy herself with her spinning; but her mind constantly wandered away, and stirred and undulated with a thousand dim and unshaped thoughts and emotions, of which she vaguely questioned in her own mind. Why did Father Francesco warn her so solemnly against an earthly love? Did he not know her vocation? But still he was wisest and must ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861 • Various

... sometimes called the Stone of Scone, on which they were crowned, was brought; had long passed away before Flora tenanted its chambers. But the associations which it presented were not likely to dim the ardour of her loyalty to the last of that race who had once held their sway over the proud castle of Dunstaffnage; nor would the roofless chapel, of exquisite architectural beauty, near Dunstaffnage, where many of the Scottish ...

— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume III. • Mrs. Thomson

... stood in the dim corridor awaiting orders, she could not help overhearing a conversation between Dr. Adair and the agitated lady who stood with her hand on the ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

... twenty-four hours' blizzard, the sky was overcast, with the usual dim light filtering through a mist of snow. We set off to scale the mountain, taking the dip-circle with us. The horizon was so obscured that it was useless to take a round of angles. Fifteen miles south of Mount Barr-Smith, and a ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

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