Synonyms for dim
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1. dim, subdued(adj)

   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, slow

   Antonyms:
   light, smart, distinct, hopeful

2. dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy(adj)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   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, slow

   Antonyms:
   distinct, hopeful, smart, light

3. dimmed, dim(adj)

   made dim or less bright

   "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

   Synonyms:
   faint, dull, obtuse, shadowy, dense, slow, vague, dumb, dimmed, wispy, black, bleak, subdued

   Antonyms:
   hopeful, light, distinct, smart

4. black, bleak, dim(adj)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   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, sinister

   Antonyms:
   hopeful, distinct, smart, light

5. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow(verb)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   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, leaden

   Antonyms:
   light, distinct, smart, hopeful

6. dim, dip(verb)

   switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

   Synonyms:
   plunge, blur, douse, souse, dip, slur, duck, sink, blind, dunk

   Antonyms:
   light, smart, hopeful, distinct

7. dim(verb)

   become dim or lusterless

   "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"

   Synonyms:
   slur, blind, blur, dip

   Antonyms:
   light, distinct, smart, hopeful

8. dim(verb)

   make dim or lusterless

   "Time had dimmed the silver"

   Synonyms:
   slur, blind, blur, dip

   Antonyms:
   hopeful, distinct, smart, light

9. blind, dim(verb)

   make dim by comparison or conceal

   Synonyms:
   slur, blind, blur, dip

   Antonyms:
   distinct, smart, light, hopeful

10. blur, dim, slur(verb)

    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

    Antonyms:
    light, distinct, smart, hopeful

English Synonyms and Antonyms(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. 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, swarthy

   Antonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dim(a.)

   Synonyms:
   dusky, dark, obscure, shadowy, cloudy, not luminous

2. dim(a.)

   Synonyms:
   dull, obtuse, slow to see

3. dim(a.)

   Synonyms:
   darkened, obscured, clouded, faint, confused, shorn of its beams

4. dim(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   darken, obscure, cloud

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dim(a)

   Synonyms:
   obscure, indistinct, faint, sullied, blurred

   Antonyms:
   bright, vivid, intense, clear

2. dim(v)

   Synonyms:
   bedim, obscure, darken, dull, eclipse, blur, tarnish

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1. List of paraphrases for "dim":

   imgs, img, bleak, sun, dimming, lol, blacked-out, gloomy, attenuate, attenuation, dimmer, dark, dimension

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1. Norman Douglas:

   There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

2. Stefan Worrall:

   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.

3. Mariana Fulger:

   Send me a whisper, but one so dim that only my soul could hear.

4. Martin Schulz:

   Such small-minded skirmishes are the business of people who took a whole city hostage for their dim-wittedness in an almost terrorist manner.

5. William Blake:

   This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

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