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[ adjective ] lacking in light; not bright or harsh
Synonyms Examples "a dim light beside the bed" "subdued lights and soft music" Used in print (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)A carriage crunched by , its dim lights filtering through the gloom . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)In the dim underwater light they dressed and straightened up the room , and then they went across the hall to the kitchen . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking clarity or distinctness
Examples "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" Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)Then the audience saw a small , dim figure appear at the edge of the Presidential box . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)And all this too shall pass_away : it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church_service when he was a boy - yes , in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson_Valley , where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English Dutch manors with their well-fed squires . Related terms |
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[ verb ] become dim or lusterless
Examples "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" Related terms |
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[ verb ] become or make darker
Synonyms Examples "The screen darkened" "He darkened the colors by adding brown" Related terms |
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[ verb ] switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam
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[ adjective ] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Examples "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" Related terms |
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[ verb ] become vague or indistinct
Examples "The distinction between the two theories blurred" Related terms |
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