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Dark or lacking in light
“Gus's father looked particularly worn down in the dim tavern lighting.”
Having no shine or luster
“The sun emitted dim rays of light and its reflection on the sea was moving constantly.”
Not visually distinct to one's sight or memory
“The baying hounds triggered a dim ancestral memory of rapacious wolf packs hard-wired somewhere deep inside his brain.”
Unfavorable with regard to opinion or hope
“It would have empowered me to be clueless too, instead of my holding on to the dim hope that things might work out.”
Stupid or slow to understand
“No less worrisome, therefore, is the fact that the networks that own so many of these stations are too dim to understand this fact.”
Expressing subtlety of a particular quality as opposed to intense
Ordinary, dull, and uninteresting
Situated in or full of shade
Having no real material or physical form or substance
Muted or suppressed in sound or volume
Having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness
Muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation
Lacking natural skill, creativity, or ingenuity
Having a pale, anemic, or ashen complexion or appearance
Not clearly visible or attracting attention
To become, or to make, less bright, especially of a light source
“You can even dim the lights in the classroom and shine a flashlight on your face as you read, to up the spooky factor.”
To become, or cause to become, dark
“The night sky would dim tremendously with the stars currently visible to the naked eye being reduced to a mere handful.”
To fade or become less intense
“There would always be a special place in the heart for each other, but time would pass and memory would dim.”
To make, or become, visually indistinct
“Mixed in with it are tiny dust grains and, like smoke, they dim our view of things beyond.”
To lessen, diminish or weaken
“A clash with Hegel, then the leading luminary of the German philosophical world, appeared to dim his prospects of becoming a successful lecturer.”
To lose, or cause to lose, color or brightness
To become dark or dim, typically of a source of light
To dull or blunt, especially to render obtuse
The period of time at the end of the day when the sun begins to set
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