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English Synonyms and Antonyms
dim
Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.
Compare synonyms for LIGHT.
Synonyms:
black, dark, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthyAntonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white
Princeton's WordNet
dim, subduedadjective
lacking in light; not bright or harsh
"a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
Synonyms:
dull, low-key, hushed, dumb, dense, muted, soft, dimmed, black, quiet, vague, subdued, low-keyed, faint, wispy, obtuse, shadowy, bleak, slowdim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispyadjective
lacking clarity or distinctness
"a dim figure in the distance"; "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"
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weak, shady, dull, wraithlike, dumb, shadowed, dense, faint-hearted, timid, undefined, swooning, dimmed, black, umbrageous, vague, fainthearted, subdued, feeble, faint, lightheaded, obscure, wispy, obtuse, light, shadowy, light-headed, wisplike, bleak, slowdimmed, dimadjective
made dim or less bright
"the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"
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faint, dull, obtuse, shadowy, dense, slow, vague, dumb, dimmed, wispy, black, bleak, subduedblack, bleak, dimadjective
offering little or no hope
"the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
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blackened, cutting, fatal, subdued, bootleg, faint, disgraceful, slow, calamitous, dumb, dark, dense, bare, raw, black, fateful, wispy, smuggled, inglorious, desolate, pitch-dark, pitch-black, grim, mordant, stark, dull, contraband, dimmed, shameful, disastrous, smutty, shadowy, barren, ignominious, vague, bleak, black-market, opprobrious, obtuse, sinisterdense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slowverb
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
"so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
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vague, ho-hum, muted, sluggish, subdued, deadening, faint, mute, slow, thudding, boring, dumb, dense, irksome, black, silent, wispy, heavy, purblind, muffled, tedious, impenetrable, dull, dimmed, speechless, shadowy, tiresome, softened, bleak, thick, wearisome, obtuse, leadendim, dipverb
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
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plunge, blur, douse, souse, dip, slur, duck, sink, blind, dunkdimverb
become dim or lusterless
"the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"
dimverb
make dim or lusterless
"Time had dimmed the silver"
blind, dimverb
make dim by comparison or conceal
blur, dim, slurverb
become vague or indistinct
"The distinction between the two theories blurred"
Synonyms:
smear, glaze over, smudge, slur, blur, blear, dip, obnubilate, obscure, blind, confuse, film over, smutch
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How to use dim in a sentence?
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
When the debris are on our line of sight to the star, it would make the star dim, however, the [individual pieces of] debris cover only a small fraction of the sky, so the chance of being on the line of sight is small.
These telescopes were designed to look for diffuse light around galaxies. Not in the context of dark matter, but you can repurpose the data to look for this glow, [The Dragonfly telescopes] are really good at looking for this high contrast between the really bright galactic center and the really dim outskirts of galaxies.
We're seeing a double whammy of yen strength combined with Japan Inc's tendency to give very conservative guidance, so you have to acknowledge some uncertainty over how much capex will actually be impacted by the stronger yen because we're unsure just how much exaggeration we're seeing in dim earnings forecasts.
I think the prospects for a last-minute settlement are very dim.
Translations for dim
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- خافتArabic
- помътнявам, замъглен, потъмнявам, неясен, мътенBulgarian
- tmavý, mdlýCzech
- schummrig, dämmerig, dämlichGerman
- σκοτεινός, θολός, θαμπός, δυσδιάκριτος, αμυδρός, θαμπώνω, κουτός, θολώνωGreek
- malheliEsperanto
- tenue, tontoSpanish
- himmeäFinnish
- bête, indistinct, ternir, tamisé, faible, flouFrench
- כההHebrew
- homályos, fénytelen, színtelen, opálos, ködbe vesző, elmosódottHungarian
- tonto, fioca, annebbiare, indistinta, oscuro, tonta, offuscare, fioco, debole, oscura, indistinto, affievolirsi, annerire, affievolire, abbassareItalian
- ほの暗い, 薄暗いJapanese
- blāvsLatvian
- dimmen, dom, afblinden, schemerig, verduisteren, schemerachtig, mat, donker, vaagDutch
- dimt, dim, dimmeNorwegian
- Fraco, indistinto, escurecer, ofuscar, obtuso, sombrio, burro, opacoPortuguese
- tern, vagRomanian
- неясный, тусклый, тупой, затемнять, тускнеть, смутныйRussian
- మసకTelugu
- สลัวThai
- тусклоUkrainian
- 暗淡Chinese
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