Search in: Word
Vietnamese keyboard: Off
Virtual keyboard: Show
English - English (Wordnet) dictionary (also found in English - Vietnamese, Computing (FOLDOC), Vietnamese - English, Vietnamese - French)
dim
Jump to user comments
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • made dim or less bright
    • the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation
    • dimmed headlights
    • we like dimmed lights when we have dinner
  • 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
  • lacking in light; not bright or harsh
    • a dim light beside the bed
    • subdued lights and soft music
Verb
  • become vague or indistinct
    • The distinction between the two theories blurred
  • make dim by comparison or conceal
  • make dim or lusterless
    • Time had dimmed the silver
  • become dim or lusterless
    • the lights dimmed and the curtain rose
  • switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
Related search result for "dim"
Comments and discussion on the word "dim"