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The synonyms of “Dim” are: subdued, dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy, black, bleak, dimmed, weak, feeble, soft, pale, dingy, muted, flat, lustreless, indistinct, ill-defined, unclear, imperceptible, nebulous, obscured, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, bleary, dark, darkish, sombre, dismal, gloomy, dusky, murky, imprecise, imperfect, confused, sketchy, hazy, foggy, obscure, remote, unpromising, unfavourable, discouraging, disheartening, depressing, dispiriting, stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, brainless, mindless, foolish, slow-witted, witless, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, doltish, dip, blind, blur, slur, grow faint, grow feeble, grow dim, fade, grow dark, darken, blacken, cloud over, become overcast, grow leaden, lour, become gloomy, turn down, lower, become vague, become indistinct, become blurred, become shadowy, become confused
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dim” as a verb can have the following definitions:
become blurred | Enhance the appearance of. |
become confused | Enter or assume a certain state or condition. |
become gloomy | Undergo a change or development. |
become indistinct | Enhance the appearance of. |
become overcast | Undergo a change or development. |
become shadowy | Enhance the appearance of. |
become vague | Undergo a change or development. |
blacken | Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color. Stone blackened by the soot of ages. |
blind | Make blind by putting the eyes out. I could see the bombs blinding along above the roof tops. |
blur | Make unclear indistinct or blurred. In front of him the page blurred. |
cloud over | Make less visible or unclear. |
darken | Make or become dark or darker. His mood darkened. |
dip | Dip into a liquid while eating. I had to dip into my savings to buy him this present. |
dull | Make or become dull or less intense. Time dulls the memory. |
fade | Become feeble. The scene begins to fade. |
grow dark | Become attached by or as if by the process of growth. |
grow dim | Come into existence; take on form or shape. |
grow faint | Become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain. |
grow feeble | Come into existence; take on form or shape. |
grow leaden | Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques. |
lour | Make lower or quieter. |
lower | Move something or somebody to a lower position. Lower a rating. |
slur | Mark notes with a slur. The pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata. |
turn down | Change to the contrary. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dim” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
black | Of a ski run of the highest level of difficulty as indicated by black markers positioned along it. Jean had disappeared and Mary was in a black mood. |
bleak | Offering little or no hope- J.M.Synge. Bleak winds of the North Atlantic. |
bleary | Indistinct or hazy in outline. Boris opened a bleary eye. |
blurred | Unclear in form or expression. The blurred distinctions between childhood and adulthood. |
blurry | Perceived or remembered indistinctly. Vision may be hazy or blurry for a few days after surgery. |
brainless | Stupid; very foolish. A brainless bimbo. |
confused | Mentally confused unable to think with clarity or act intelligently. Reports about the incident were rather confused. |
dark | Of a person having dark skin hair or eyes. Dark as the inside of a black cat. |
darkish | Marked by difficulty of style or expression. Darkish red. |
dense | Hard to pass through because of dense growth. She made her way through the dense undergrowth. |
depressing | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The mortgage rate increase will have a depressing effect on the housing market. |
dimmed | Lacking clarity or distinctness. The dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation. |
dingy | Causing dejection. A dingy room. |
discouraging | Expressing disapproval. Where never is heard a discouraging word. |
disheartening | Destructive of morale and self-reliance. Her death is particularly disheartening because it was preventable. |
dismal | Pitifully or disgracefully bad. The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening. |
dispiriting | Causing someone to lose enthusiasm and hope; disheartening. It was a dispiriting occasion. |
doltish | Heavy and dull and stupid. A doltish character. |
dull | Lacking brightness, vividness, or sheen. There was a dull pain in his lower jaw. |
dumb | Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity- Thackeray. A dumb question. |
dusky | Used in names of animals with dark coloration e g dusky dolphin dusky warbler. The dusky night rides down the sky And ushers in the morn. |
empty-headed | Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity. |
faint | (of a sight, smell, or sound) barely perceptible. Faint resistance. |
feeble | Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. A feeble excuse. |
flat | Flattened laterally along the whole length e g certain leafstalks or flatfishes. Flat wall paint. |
foggy | Unable to think clearly; confused. A dark and foggy night. |
foolish | Having or revealing stupidity. He was foolish enough to confide in her. |
fuzzy | (of a person or the mind) unable to think clearly; confused. That fuzzy line between right and wrong. |
gloomy | Depressingly dark. A dark gloomy day. |
half-witted | Retarded in intellectual development. |
hazy | Indistinct or hazy in outline. School leavers were often hazy about employment. |
idiotic | Having a mental age of three to seven years. I was able to hum its idiotic theme tune. |
ignorant | Angry or quick-tempered. He was completely ignorant of the circumstances. |
ill-defined | Poorly stated or described. |
imbecile | Having a mental age of three to seven years. Try not to make imbecile remarks. |
imbecilic | Having a mental age of three to seven years. |
imperceptible | Impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses. An imperceptible drop in temperature. |
imperfect | (of a tense) denoting a past action in progress but not completed at the time in question. Drainage here is imperfect. |
imprecise | Lacking exactness and accuracy of expression or detail. The witness could give only vague and imprecise descriptions. |
indistinct | Not clear or sharply defined. Indistinct shapes in the gloom. |
lustreless | Not bright or shiny; dull. Her uncombed lustreless black hair. |
mindless | Not marked by the use of reason. Mindless violence. |
moronic | Having a mental age of between eight and twelve years. Television s latest moronic soap opera. |
murky | Obscure or morally questionable. Murky rooms lit by smoke blackened lamps. |
muted | Being or made softer or less loud or clear. Muted anger. |
nebulous | Lacking definition or definite content. Nebulous reasons. |
obscure | Not clearly understood or expressed-Anatole Broyard- P.A.So. An obscure village. |
obscured | Not drawing attention. |
obtuse | Difficult to understand, especially deliberately so. It had strange obtuse teeth. |
pale | Very light colored; highly diluted with white. The pale or wan stars. |
remote | Denoting a device which can only be accessed by means of a network. A remote contingency. |
shadowy | Of uncertain identity or nature. Strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds. |
simple-minded | Lacking mental capacity and subtlety. |
sketchy | Not thorough or detailed. A sketchy neighbourhood. |
slow | Of a sports field or ground likely to make the ball bounce or run slowly or to prevent competitors from travelling fast. He was slow in reacting to the news. |
slow-witted | Retarded in intellectual development. |
soft | Used chiefly as a direction or description in music soft in a quiet subdued tone. Her hair felt very soft. |
sombre | Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness. He looked at her with a sombre expression. |
subdued | In a softened tone. I felt strangely subdued as I drove home. |
unclear | Not clear to the mind. Users are still unclear about what middleware does. |
unfavourable | Expressing or showing a lack of approval or support. Single mothers are often the target of unfavourable press attention. |
unintelligent | Having or showing a low level of intelligence. A dull job with lazy and unintelligent co workers. |
unpromising | Unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment. Music for unpromising combinations of instruments. |
vacuous | Devoid of intelligence. Vacuous comments. |
vague | Thinking or communicating in an unfocused or imprecise way. Vague feelings of sadness. |
vapid | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. A bunch of vapid schoolgirls. |
weak | Relating to or denoting the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts only at distances less than about 10 cm is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions and conserves neither strangeness parity nor isospin. A weak president. |
wispy | (of hair, threads, smoke, etc.) fine; feathery. A few wispy memories of childhood. |
witless | Lacking sense or understanding or judgment. He was scared witless. |
blur | Make unclear indistinct or blurred. The day before was a blur. |
blurred | Unclear in form or expression- H.G.Wells. A landscape of blurred outlines. |
blurry | Indistinct or hazy in outline. Video projectors provided extremely blurry images. |
cave | Hollow out as if making a cave or opening. They say they cave for the adventure challenge and physical exercise. |
cloudy | Uncertain; unclear. A very grey cloudy day. |
dark | Used of color having a dark hue. Dark eyes. |
darkling | Growing dark or characterized by darkness. The darkling sky. |
darkness | An unenlightened state. He moved off into the darkness. |
dusky | Used in names of animals with dark coloration e g dusky dolphin dusky warbler. A dusky complexion. |
fade | Gradually ceasing to be visible. The ball faded toward an area left of the green. |
faint | Lacking clarity or distinctness. Faint heart ne er won fair lady. |
hazy | Indistinct or hazy in outline. It was a beautiful day but quite hazy. |
inconspicuous | Not clearly visible or attracting attention. He pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole. |
indistinct | Not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand. Indistinct shapes in the gloom. |
murkiness | An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance. |
obfuscate | Make obscure or unclear. The spelling changes will deform some familiar words and obfuscate their etymological origins. |
obscure | Make obscure or unclear. An impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit. |
overshadow | Cast a shadow upon. He was always overshadowed by his brilliant elder brother. |
puzzling | Not clear to the understanding. Only one very puzzling question remains unanswered. |
shadow | Cast a shadow over. The poor child was his mother s shadow. |
shadowy | Lacking in substance- W.A.Butler. A long shadowy cobbled passage. |
shady | Unscrupulous. They sprawled under a shady carob tree. |
subtlety | The quality or state of being subtle. The textural subtlety of Degas. |
swarthy | Naturally having skin of a dark color. Swarthy men with gleaming teeth. |
tenebrous | Dark and gloomy. A tenebrous cave. |
turbid | Clouded as with sediment. A turbid piece of cin ma v rit. |
unclear | Not obvious or definite; ambiguous. Their future remains unclear. |
unintelligible | Hard or impossible to understand. Dolphin sounds are unintelligible to humans. |
vague | Lacking clarity or distinctness. Their descriptions of human behavior become vague dull and unclear. |
wispy | Lacking clarity or distinctness. The sky was blue with a few wispy clouds. |
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