dim

Verb

Verb Forms: dimmed, dimming, dims

• To make or become less bright or distinct.
• switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
• become dim or lusterless
  • "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"
• make dim or lusterless
  • "Time had dimmed the silver"
• make dim by comparison or conceal
• become vague or indistinct
• To make something less bright.
• To become darker.
• To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
• To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
• To diminish, dull, or curtail.

Adjective Satellite

• lacking in light; not bright or harsh
  • "a dim light beside the bed"
• lacking clarity or distinctness
  • "a dim figure in the distance"
• offering little or no hope; ; ; - J.M.Synge
  • "took a dim view of things"
• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; - Thackeray
  • "never met anyone quite so dim"

Adjective

• Not brightly lit; obscure or indistinct.
• made dim or less bright
  • "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"
  • "dimmed headlights"
  • "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

Adj

• Not bright or colorful.
• Not smart or intelligent.
• Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• Clipping of diminished.

Noun

• Dimness.

Examples

• A glut might dim the outlook for grain futures.
• A series of low-scoring words can DIM a player’s enthusiasm for Words With Friends.
• All these setbacks had started to dim the hopes of the students.
• He dimmed the lights and put on soft music.
• He may be a bit dim, but he's not entirely stupid.
• His chances of winning became DIM after his opponent played a triple-word score bingo.
• His vision grew dimmer as he aged.
• Nothing will dim their spirit of resilience.
• The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.
• The lights dimmed briefly when the air conditioning was turned on.

Synonyms

black, bleak, blind, blur, dense, dimmed, dip, dull, dumb, faint, obtuse, shadowy, slow, slur, subdued, vague, wispy, Boeotian, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, bland, blockheaded, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, colourless, crackbrained, cretinous, dented, deprecative, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dingy, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, dusk, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, hazy, idiotic, ill-defined, ill-marked, imbecilic, improbatory, inane, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lackluster, lamebrained, leaden, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muddy, muttonheaded, muzzy, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obscure, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, reprobative, reprobatory, retarded, rockheaded, sad, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow-witted, smooth-brained, sober, stolid, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, uncolorful, undefined, unholiday, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, wan, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded

Antonyms

focus, undimmed, bright, colored, multicolored

Related Words

cheerless, dark, dim mak, dim sum, dim., pallid

Anagrams of dim