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Meaning dim meaning

What does dim mean?
Definitions in simple English

dim Adjective

— If a thing is dim, it is not bright. It is hard to see in a room where the lights are dim. — If a person is dim, they are not very smart.

dim Verb

— If you dim something, you make it darker. Before a movie starts, it is normal to dim the lights in the movie theater. — If something dims, it gets darker. As time went by the fire dimmed.

dim

— adjective (= subdued) lacking in light; not bright or harsh a dim light beside the bed subdued lights and soft music — adjective (= faint, shadowy, vague, wispy) 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 — verb switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam — verb make dim or lusterless Time had dimmed the silver — verb become dim or lusterless the lights dimmed and the curtain rose — verb (= blur) become vague or indistinct The distinction between the two theories blurred — verb make dim by comparison or conceal — adjective (= dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow) 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 — adjective (= dimmed) made dim or less bright the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation dimmed headlights we like dimmed lights when we have dinner — adjective (= black, bleak) 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 dim synonyms

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dim English » English

dark obscure indistinct faint dull vague hazy gloomy dusky murky cloud unclear shadowy misty cloudy blurred slow pale foggy blur dusk darken bleak weak twilight thick somber dumb stupid sombre slow-witted overcast opaque lacklustre fade dip dingy clouded black obscured not bright mat lustreless lackluster fog faded dismal dimmed dim-witted dense

Topics dim topics

What do people use dim to talk about?
States Quality Light

Dark
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Star
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Person Sense, perceive See

Transparent
Language and thought Think Mind

Stupid
States Quality Light Shine

Light source
Language and thought Think Opinion

Approve of something

Conjugation dim conjugation

How do you conjugate dim?

dim · verb

Examples dim examples

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Simple sentences

The moonlight is dim.
We saw a dim light in the darkness.
Do not read books in such a dim room.
I have a dim memory of my grandmother.
The stars seem dim because of the city lights.
You shouldn't read a book in a room this dim.
Tom wasn't able to read in the dim light.
Some incidents from my childhood are crystal clear, others are just a dim memory.
I saw his face in the dim light.
He's always somewhat tired and anxious, his eyes only shine a dim blue-gray light.
We lived in a cramped, dim house which was as small as a hive.
The moon was dim.
Could you dim the lights a little?
Virginia's eyes grew dim with tears, and she hid her face in her hands.

Movie subtitles

Kepler will simply do one thing unbelievably well - measure the brightnesses of 1 00,000 stars over and over and over, looking for a few of those 1 00,000 stars that dim.
The other seeks an expression of impulses. that bind him to some dim animal relation with the earth.
Mike, dim those first three borders, will you?
Many, many years ago, in the dear, dim past I proposed to your mother.
How can I dim myself down, Leon?
Will those nearest to the lights kindly rise and dim them, please.
We always dim the lights 45 minutes before we surface.
Let the train pass, then dim your lights twice.
I'll just turn them down dim.
There's no readin' with those dim-out lights.
I stared out of that railway carriage window into the dark. and watched the dim trees and the telegraph posts slipping by. and through them, I saw Alec and me.
In the dim, shaded light. the face appeared to him to be a little changed.
Just two more dim faces. On the night of May 6, at a time we may be able to fix within the compass of a few minutes, some persons or person administered to Richard Paradine a murderous dose of poison.
The other players would be actor friends, dim figures you may still remember from the silent days.
I remember. That's something in my dim, dark past.
Empty, quiet, dim.
Do you need some dim light, Cordy?
A farewell party with dim light, that's nice.
The others around the table would be actor friends. Dim figures you may still remember from the silent days.
Yes. The authorities took a very dim view. Might have been a spy.
The light was dim, sir, but I could see someone who was kneeling against the altar rail.
Ship's beeper will as usual sound 10 times after lights dim.
Sorry, but I take a dim view. of watching my own destruction take place.
It's getting a trifle dim.
How do you dim these lights?
So you're going to turn into one of these dim little ladies Who fill hot-Water bottles for elderly relatives?
Time cannot change its impassive face. nor dim the legend of the wild young lovers. who found heaven and hell in the shadows of the rock.
My poor old memory isn't that dim.
You look filthy, even in this dim light.
Such as the Stone Age man must have invented in the dim beginnings of the human race.
Even with the hardest kind of driving and every traffic break in my favor, any chance of making riverdale by 1:30 was pretty dim.
Dim the lights and light the candles!

News and current affairs

But the prospects of success are desperately dim.
The International Monetary Fund is thus absolutely right in arguing that excessively front-loaded and synchronized fiscal austerity in most advanced economies will dim global growth prospects in 2013.
Popular images of past disasters are part of our folklore, often buried in the dim reaches of our memory, but re-emerging to trouble us from time to time.
Some skeptics go further, arguing that the Iraq debacle proves that prospects for democracy throughout the Arab world are dim.
But it is now widely recognized that such changes are a response to dim prospects of real progress toward peace.
The prospects of a stable future look increasingly dim.
I visited Pakistan for President Zardari's inauguration, and for the first time I saw a dim ray of hope.
Households, burdened with debt while their retirement savings wither and job prospects remain dim, have spent only a fraction of the tax cuts.
If globalization does not get the fix it needs, economic prospects will be dim for rich and poor countries alike.
What will the unemployed - especially the long-term unemployed with only dim memories of integration into the world of work - do with themselves and their time?
SAO PAULO - After years of impressive growth, Brazil's economic prospects appear increasingly dim.
In such an environment, the prospects for diplomacy are dim.
Yet the document that they will now vote on is more likely to dash those hopes and dim Egyptians' prospects for democracy.
The reader is obliged to conclude that regulators might not have been so dim after all.
And, as fragilities increase - and as a financial wedge is driven into the eurozone's core (Germany and France) - growth and employment prospects dim.
With more than 200 million unemployed around the world, prospects for job creation are still too dim.
Anatoly Chubais, the father of Russian privatization in the 1990's and the current head of the country's nano-technology conglomerate RosNano, recently admitted that the prospects for political modernization in Russia are dim.
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