Dim

Definition: Dim

Dim

Adjective

1. Lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music".

2. 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".

3. Made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner".

4. 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".

5. 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".

Verb

1. Switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam.

2. Become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown".

3. Become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose".

4. Make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver".

5. Make dim by comparison or conceal.

6. Become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Dim \Dim\, adjective. [Comparative Dimmer; superlative Dimmest.]. (references)

Computing

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Synonyms: Dim

Unintelligibility

Obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; opaque, dense; undiscernible; (invisible); misty; (opaque); hidden; latent.

Crosswords: Dim

German (dim), Portuguese (digital line/trunk interface module), Serbo-Croatian (aerosol, smoke), Welsh (any, anything, aught, no, none, nothing, something).

When he is aroundit's like the lights dim everywhere else (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought - (Fantastic Voyage; writing credit: Jerome Bixby; David Duncan)

Now, well it's still kind of dim our there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

There was me, that is Alex and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim. And we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our razoodocks what to do with the evening (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

I am the Supreme Being, I'm not entirely dim. (Time Bandits; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Michael Palin)

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

Don't let the world dim my sight (Bailamos; performing artist: ENRIQUE IGLESIAS)

The dim light hides the years (Broadway; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

From within, the dim light cast two silhouettes on the shade (Silhouettes; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

And then the teardrops made my eyes grow dim (I Don't Wanna Play House; performing artist: Tammy Wynette)

A dozen dim ding-dongs. (references; author: unknown)

All in Dim Cold Night (1974)

Dim (1967)

The Dim Little Island (1949)

Dim Sum Take Out (1988)

Choh dim yuen yeung (1985)

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Books

• Chinese Dim Sum (reference)

• Dim Sum (Essential Kitchen Series) (reference)

• Dim Sum Dead (reference)

• Dim Sum for Everyone (reference)

• Dim Sum: Delicious Finger Food for Parties (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dim Sum (reference)

• Ranma 1/2 - Hard Battle, Vol. 2: Dim Sum Darling (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dim Stars Bright Sky (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 256MB DELL DIM XPST450 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Digital Image Model (DIM) of Mars. Reproduced from Volume 7 of theMars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. Credit: NASA.

One dim out we can't have. Credit: Library of Congress.

Startingly white against the fog and shadow-darkened background of Sugar Loaf and Corcovado mountains and the dim shoreline of Rio, three Martin Mariners are snapped from a sister ship as they wing in from sea / Official U.S. Navy photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dim sianel=dim trywydded : mynnwn fod Llundain yn cadw'i gair. Credit: Library of Congress.

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She handed the tablets to Clara, who gazed at them with eyes so dim with tears that she did not at first notice that she was holding them upside down

A ray of humour, now and then, would make its way through the veil of dim obstruction, and glimmer pleasantly upon our faces

The candle was on the mantel, and gave but a dim light

Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression

And they crawled the jagged ramparts in the night, and their dim lights flickered on the pale stone walls of the road

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Health

Your vision will dim while the suction ring is on and you may feel the pressure and experience some discomfort during this part of the procedure. (references)

The lights in the office will be dim. As you sit facing the laser machine, your doctor will hold a special lens to your eye. During the procedure, you may see flashes of light. (references)

In 1872, the American physician George Huntington wrote about an illness that he called "an heirloom from generations away back in the dim past." He was not the first to describe the disorder, which has been traced back to the Middle Ages at least. (references)

Business

Although labor and other costs have begun to increase (they are now 15 percent over Monterrey) U.S., Asian and European investment will continue to open new factories, as witnessed by the new Thompson facility, at least on the short and medium term. On the long run, however, neglected environmental problems, inflation caused by a partial dolarization of the border economy and looming infrastructural bottlenecks may dim Baja California’s lure to foreign investors. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Prospects for an early revival of the Colombo Stock market remain dim. (references)

Sri Lanka

In the current scenario, economic prospects continue to be dim through at least early 2002. (references)

Political Economy

Venezuela

The Defense Ministry controls the General Directorate for Military Intelligence (DIM), which is responsible for collecting intelligence related to national security and sovereignty. (references)

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Expressions using "dim": a dim prospect ♦ be dim ♦ dim fiber ♦ dim fibre ♦ dim light ♦ dim lights ♦ dim one's headlights ♦ dim one's lights ♦ dim out ♦ dim pattern ♦ dim statement ♦ dim sum ♦ dim witted ♦ grow dim ♦ have a dim recollection of it ♦ in the dim and distant past ♦ look dim ♦ take a dim view of ♦ take a dim view of smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "dim": dim-blue, dim-dip, dim-discerned, dim-discovered, dim-eyed, dim-lit, dim-looking, dim-seen, Dim-sighted, Dim-sightedness, dim-sum, dim-tinted, dim-wit, dim-witted, dim-wittedness, dim-yellow.

Ending with "dim": anti-dim, nice-but-dim.

Afrikaans

duister (dark), donker (bleak, dark, dismal, dreary). (various references)

Albanian

dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken), zbehem (blench, grow pale, pale, turn green, turn pale), zbeh (dull, lighten, pale), vagëlluar, vagëlloj, turbullohem (be troubled, become agitated, cloud, thicken), pa shkëlqim (ground, lacklustre, mat), misterioz (arcane, deep, delphian, mysterious), i zbehtë (anaemic, anemic, ashy, cadaverous, dingy, ghastly, light, livid, pale, pallid, paly, peaked, wan), i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i paqartë (abstract, dark, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague), i marrtë, i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, black out, blur, darken, dusk, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏بليد (bovine, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, silly, sleepy, slow, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable), ‏بهت (fade, faint, pale), ‏أصبح ضعيف, ‏أصبح معتما, ‏الضوء الخافت في السيارة, ‏جعله معتما (overshadow), ‏باهت (dull, faint, indistinct, lank, pale, pallid, wan, washed out), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏متشائم (biliousness, black, cynic, cynical, gloomy, pessimistic), ‏حفض الضوء, ‏قاتم (black, cloudy, dark, deep, dusky, gloomy, murky, overcast, sable), ‏مبهم (abstruse, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inscrutable, misty, mysterious, mystic, obscure, recondite, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, vague), ‏مظلم (black, dark, dun, dusk, gloomy, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏معتم (cloud-capped, cloudy, dark, dusk, dusky, gloomy, murky, obscure, overcast), ‏خافت (faint, low, soft, subdued). (various references)

Bulgarian 

матов (dead, dull, lustreless, mat, muddy, opaque), избелял (faded, rusty, washed out, weather-stained, yellowing), помрачавам (alloy, bedim, cloud, darken, dull, dusk, eclipse, nip, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow, trouble), повяхвам (decay, droop, fade, wither), потъмнял (dark, discolored, discoloured, dull, lacklustre, tarnished), премрежен, блед (bloodless, colorless, colourless, faint, lunar, pale, pallid, paly, thin, wan, washy, watery), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, mousey, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), безцветен (achromatic, bleak, colorless, colourless, toneless, white), замъглявам (bedim, befog, blur, dull, film, fog, muddy, skim), избледнявам (fade, pale, recede, whiten), малко вероятен (off, remote, unlikely), скептичен (incredulous, sceptic, sceptical), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), мъждив, мътен (cloudy, dreggy, feculent, fishy, muddy, roily, sludgy, thick, turbid, unclear), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, reduce, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down), глух (dead, deaf, flat, hollow, impervious, inward, outlandish, tuneless), гасна (die down, diminish, ebb, fail, sink), къси светлини (dimmers), тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), слаб (defective, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), засенчвам (adumbrate, blanket, efface, obscure, outshine, out-top, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shade, show up, upstage). (various references)

Catalan

fosc (dark). (various references)

Chinese 

陰暗 (somber), 瞀 (indistinct vision, name of a tribe), 暗淡 (dismal, faint, gloomy), 昏暗. (various references)

Czech

ztlumit (cushion, damp down, deaden, dip, hush, soften, tone down, turn down), zeslábnout (fade, grow dim, grow feeble, slacken), zbavit lesku (tarnish), zamlžit (bedim), vyblednout (Discolor, discolour, fade, loose colour, lose colour), vágní (hazy, impressionistic, lax, sloppy, vague), prostoduchý (simple, simple minded), poblednout, přitlumit (subdue), přitlumený, nejasný (abstruse, ambiguous, dimmish, equivocal, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, misty, obscure, stolid, tenuous, unclear, vague, woolly), mlhavý (foggy, hazy, indefinite, misty, nebulous, vague, vapoury), matný (dull, frosted, lacklustre, opaque, vague), kalný (bleary, cloudy, dull, murky, thick, turbid), šerý (dusky, lacklustre, murky, shadowy). (various references)

Danish

mørk (bleak, dark, dismal, dreary). (various references)

Dutch

schemerig. (various references)

Esperanto

duonluma, nebuligi (befog, cloud), nebrila, malluma (dark), krepuska, kondenskovriĝi (get blurred). (various references)

Farsi 

مبهم (Ambiguous, Dusky, Enigmatic, Esoteric, Imprecise, Misty, Mysterious, Obscure, Opaque, Vague), تیره کردن (Blur, Dark, Fog, Gloom, Mud, Obscure, Overcast, Shade, Tarnish), تاریک (Blind, Caliginous, Dark, Dusky, Gloomy, Lackluster, Somber), تار (Caliginous, Chord, Fiber-Fibre, Filament, Nebulous, Obscure). (various references)

Finnish

sumentaa (cloud, darken, obscure, shroud in mist), pimittää (cheat, darken, obscure, withhold information on one's income), himmenntää (blur, darken, dip the lights, eclipse, obscure, outshine, screen off, stop down), himmeä (dull, lustreless, matt, obscure, tarnished), hämyinen (dusky), hämärä (dark, dusk, dusky, hazy, obscure, the grey dawn, twilight). (various references)

French

sombre (dingy, dirty, dismal), obscur. (various references)

Frisian

tsjuster (dark), skimmerich, jûnich. (various references)

German

trübe (bleak, blear, blearly, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dark, dimly, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, filmy, gloomy, grey, grim, indistinct, lackluster, lacklustre, misty, muddy, murky, somberly, turbid), dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, lightless, murky, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely), dämmerig (crepuscular, dusky, faint, twilight). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω αμυδρό, σκοτεινόσ (black, dark, dingy, dusk, murky, obscure, opaque, recondite, shady, somber, sombre), αμυδρόσ (crepuscular, hazy, twilight), αμυδρός (faint, vague), θαμπός (dusty), θολός (blurred, clouded, turbid), θολωμένος (blurred, clouded). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעומעם, מעורפל (filmy, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, misty, nebulous, shadowy), לעמום (darken, obscure), לעמעם (blur, darken, mute, obscure, overlook, tarnish), לעמם (dull, fade), להתעמעם (become dimmed), עמום (abstruse, faint, frosting, fuzzy, muzzy, obscure, obtuse, opaque, tarnish, vague), אפלולי (darkish, dusky, murky), אפל (black, dark, gloomy, leaden, obscure, somber), כהוי (dark), כהה (dark, deep, dull, faint, obscure). (various references)

Hungarian

tompa (blunt, dull, have a blunt edge, hollow, lustreless, matt, muffled, obscure, obtuse, pastel shades, thick-headed), sötétes, sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian, tenebrous), sápadt (anaemic, blank, chalky, light, pale, pallid, pasty-faced, sallow, tallow-faced, to look green about the gills, wan, white), nem valami előkelő, homályosít (to adumbrate, to dim), homályos (abstruse, apocalyptic, bleary, blurred, cloudy, darksome, dusk, dusky, equivocal, foggy, frosted, fuzzy, gloomy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, lustreless, misty, murky, nebulous, oblique, obscure, recondite, shadowy, shady, shape, stygian, transcendental, twilit, unclear, vague), halvány (blanch, bloodless, distant, faint, light, pale, pallid, sickly, vague, wan, white), gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly), fakó (colorless, colourless, doughy, flat, lack-lustre, livid, lustreless, mat, Matt, muddy, pale, pallid, paly, rusty, sallow, washed-out, whitey), félhomályos (dimmish, half-lighted), borús (cloudy, dingy, gloomy, louring, lowering, obscure, overcast), bizonytalan (choppy, cranky, dicey, dubious, elusive, equivocal, faint, faltering, fickle, have cold feet, hazy, hesitating, indefinite, indeterminate, insecure, irresolute, nondescript, obscure, pennky, precarious, questionable, sandy, scratchy, shaky, speculative, suspensive, to be in the air, to hang in the air, to hang in the balance, transcendental, uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, unsure, vague, woozy). (various references)

Indonesian

taram, suram (bleak, dismal, dreary, gloom, grim), redam (faint, hushed, muffled, vague), guram (chicken flea, dull, hazy, insignificant), berasap (misty, smoke). (various references)

Italian

oscuro (black, dark, gloomy, humble, murky, obscure, somber, sombre). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄暗い (gloomy), 蒼然 (blue, bluish), 朦朧たる (hazy, obscure, vague), 朦朧 (ambiguous, faint, hazy, indistinct, vague), 朦朦 (dense, thick), 濛濛たる (dense, thick, vague), 濛々たる (dense, thick, vague), 幽微 (indistinct), 幽か (faint, hazy, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), 微か (faint, hazy, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), ぼろ布 (absent-minded, absentmindedly, block-head, dripping water, faint, flabbergasted, gaping, old rag, penis, slowly and lazily, the sound of beating someone, vague, warmth throughout your body, with a whack), 小暗い (dusky, shady). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おぐらい (dusky, shady), そうぜん (binocular, blue, bluish, both eyes, confused, noisy, uproarious), ぼんやり (absent-minded, block-head, faint, vague), うすぐらい (gloomy), かすか (faint, hazy, indistinct, poor, weak, wretched), こぐらい (dusky, shady), ゆうび (elegance, grace, indistinct, refinement), もうろうたる (hazy, obscure, vague), もうろう (ambiguous, faint, hazy, indistinct, vague), もうもうたる (dense, thick, vague), もうもう (dense, thick). (various references)

Korean 

희미한. (various references)

Manx

moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), lhaggaghey (abate, abatement, bate, depress, drop away, ease, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduce, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down), lhag (baggy, dent, depressed, easy fitting, faltering, feeble, flaccid, flagging, frail in health, ineffective), jannoo dullyr (befog, blear, blur vision), dullyragh (opaqueness), dullyr (black, black as outlook, blear, blear of outline, dimness, dingy, dusky, fuzzy, gloom, gloomy, lowering, muzzy, opaque), cur kay er (blur, cloud, fog). (various references)

Norwegian

matt (dull, faint). (various references)

Papiamen

skur (dark). (various references)

Pig Latin

imday.(various references)

Portuguese

deslustrar (sully), turvo (blear, cloudy, dimmish, dreggy, feculent, foul, milky, muddy, roily, thick, troubled), turvar (blear, cloud, muddy, obscure, puddle, roil, thicken), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), pouco perceptível, opaco (mat, matted), ofuscar (bedazzle, bedim, blear, blur, daze, dazzle, obfuscate, outshine, overshadow, sadden), obscuro (abstruse, blur, dusk, fameless, foggy, hazy, humble, inexplicit, inglorious, misty, mysterious, nameless, obscure, oracular, transcendental, unclear, unnoted), obscurecer (befog, blot, blur, cloud, darken, dusk, fog, gloom, haze, lour, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, sadden, shadow, thicken), não ofuscante, indistinto (fuzzy, hazy, inarticulate, incompact, indistinct, lax, misty, mum, nebulous, thick, tight-lipped), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), escurecer (cloud, darken, darkle, dusk, gloom, overcloud), embaraçar (abash, astonish, astound, blur, clog, cumber, derange, detain, disconcert, embarrass, embroil, encumber, entangle, puzzle, quiz, straiten, trammel), baço (brown, dingy, ill humor, ill humour, lacklustre, lustreless, swarthy, tarnished). (various references)

Romanian

deveni vag, şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe), împânzi (stud), confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, crabbed, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), chior (blind, boss-eyed, one eyed), cernit (black, blackened, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkened, dull, dusky, gloomy, sad, somber, sombre, sullen), neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), şters (colorless, colourless, dingy, dull, Gray, grey, low-pitched, pale, sad, wan, washy, wiped, wiping), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), amurgi (droop, fade, get dark), aburi (exhale, fumigate, mist, smoke, steam, sweat), întunecos (dark, darkish, dingy, gloomy, murkily, murky, obscure, shadowy, twilight), întuneca (bedim, cloud, darken, gloom, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud, overshadow, sadden, tarnish), înnegura (darken), înceţoşat (blear, filmy, foggy, misty), ceţos (brumous, dull, filmy, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, vague, vaporous), spãlãcit (colorless, colourless, dull, pale, wan, washed out, washy), vag (distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, sketchy, slight, vague, washy), umbri (adumbrate, blur, cloud, darken, eclipse, obfuscate, screen, shade, worsen), tulbure (cloudy, feculent, filmy, muddy, thick, troubled, turbid, unquiet, unsettled, vaguely), tulburat (anxious, confused, crazy, distempered, distracted, excited, keyed, ruffled, stormy, turbid, uneasy, worried), tont (addle-brained, blockhead, brain-hampered, chump, dull-witted, dummy, dunderhead, goofy, nitwit, noodle, oaf, oafish, sap, thick-headed), face vag, stins (departed, extinct, extinguished, faded, faint, ghastly, out, sickly, withered), zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), slãbi vederea, semiobscur (dusky, gloomy), se şterge (fade, vanish), potolit (becalmed, calm, mellow, quiet, relieved, sedate, sober, still, undisturbed), orb (blind, crazy, headlong, reckless, sightless, unenlightened, unseeing), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker). (various references)

Russian 

смутный (foggy, hazy, indistinct, nebulous, shadowy), слабый (characterless, cold, cranky, delicate, dicky, effeminate, enervate, faint, faint sound, faintish, feeble, fragile, frail, knock kneed, languishing, lax, limp, loosely-coupled, mild, nerveless, pale, pimping, reckling, remiss, slack, slight, soft, tender, unbacked, weak, weakly, wishy washy), тусклый (blear, bleary, dingy, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan), тёмный (dark), матовый (antiglare, frostywhite, mat, matt, matted, opaque), затемнять тусклый, затемнять (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, black out, blind, darken, dim out, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow), запотелый (misted). (various references)

Scottish

dorcha (dark, dusky, obscure : an dorcha, the dark). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamutiti (bedim, grow dim, mix, roil, stir), zamagliti (befog, blur, fog, mist), taman (dark, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, narrow, near, opaque, tenebrous), sumračan (crepuscular, dusky, somber, sombre), nejasan (abstruse, bleary, blurred, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous, obscure, recondite, unclear, undetermined, vague), mutan (bleary, dingy, feculent, lacklustre, mat, matted, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid), mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous), mat (checkmate, mate, misted). (various references)

Spanish

oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat), turbio (cloudy, dimly, mirk, muddy, murk, murky, roily, shady, thick, troubled, underhand). (various references)

Sranan

dungru (dark). (various references)

Swahili

-enye giza (dark), enye giza (dark). (various references)

Swedish

oklar (cloudy, fuzzy, incoherent, indefinite, indistinct, misty, nebulous, obscure, opaque, sketchy, unclear, woolly). (various references)

Tagalog

madilím (dark). (various references)

Thai

โง่ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), สลัว, ทำให้สลัว, หมดหวัง, มัว (dull, opaque). (various references)

Turkish

donuklaştırmak (bedim, deaden, dull, fog, scumble), donuk (blear, blurred, clouded, colourless, dead, diaphanous, dull, dullish, frosty, glassy, inanimate, mat, Matt, opaque, toneless), sönükleşmek, sönük (dead pan, extinct, extinguished, faint, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), karartmak (becloud, bedim, befog, black, blacken, blackout, cloud, darken, dim out, fade, fade out, fog, lour, lower, obfuscate, obscure, shadow), kararmak (blacken, darken, get dark, grow dark, lour, tarnish), kalın kafalı (bonehead, bone-headed, chucklehead, dense, dull, fat-headed, mutton head, numskull, obtuse, slow on the uptake, slow witted, thick, thickheaded, thick-headed, thickskulled, thickwitted, wooden, woodenheaded), bulanmak (blur, film over), bulandırmak (blur, cloud, darken, muddy, trouble, turn, upset), bulanık (blurred, blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, out of focus, troubled, turbid), anlayışsız (blind, blunt, inconsiderate, insensitive, purblind, undiscerning, unsympathetic). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьmezlemek (grow foggy), яitigsi (dead, dull). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабий (asthenic, asthenical, dicky, dilute, unmanly, weak), робити тьмяним (tarnish), тьмяніти (darkle, dull, glaze, glaze over, pale, tarnish, wan), тьмяний (crepuscular, dingy, dull, glaucous, glazed, glazy, lacklustre, obscure, opaque, sad, wan, waterish), невиразний (chancy, characterless, elusive, expressionless, faint, featureless, foggy, hazy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly), затінювати (deface, obfuscate, obscure). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tối mờ mờ, mập mờ (ill-defined, indefinite, indeterminate, misty, muddy, unprecise, woolly), mờ (mat, obscure, twilight), lờ mờ xỉn, lờ mờ (adumbration, dreamy, dubious, dusty, indeterminate, indistinct, vague), không tươi. (various references)

Welsh

pw+l (blear, blunt, dull, obtuse), cymylu (cloud, obscure). (various references)

Yucatec

e'hoch'e'en (dark). (various references)

dara. (various references)

obscur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dim": dime, dimenhydrinate, dimenhydrinates, dimension, dimensional, dimensionalities, dimensionality, dimensionally, dimensioned, dimensioning, dimensionless, dimensions, dimer, dimercaprol, dimercaprols, dimeric, dimerism, dimerisms, dimerization, dimerizations, dimerize, dimerized, dimerizes, dimerizing, dimerous, dimers, dimes, dimeter, dimeters, dimethoate, dimethoates, dimethyl, dimethylhydrazine, dimethylhydrazines, dimethylnitrosamine, dimethylnitrosamines, dimethyls, dimethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamines, dimetric, diminish, diminishable, diminished, diminishes, diminishing, diminishment, diminishments, diminuendo, diminuendos, diminution, diminutions. (additional references)

Words ending with "dim": bedim, melamdim. (additional references)

Words containing "dim": acidimeter, acidimeters, acidimetric, acidimetries, acidimetry, bedimmed, bedimming, bedimple, bedimpled, bedimples, bedimpling, bedims, condiment, condimental, condiments, embodiment, embodiments, hardiment, hardiments, impediment, impedimenta, impediments, multidimensional, multidimensionalities, multidimensionality, nondimensional, nonsedimentable, pediment, pedimental, pedimented, pediments, rudiment, rudimental, rudimentarily, rudimentariness, rudimentarinesses, rudimentary, rudiments, sediment, sedimentable, sedimentary, sedimentation, sedimentations, sedimented, sedimenting, sedimentologic, sedimentological, sedimentologically, sedimentologies, sedimentologist, sedimentologists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cim, da, Dacm, daim, daj, damm, danm, daum, dawm, dbm, dci, deam, Deim, deium, dem, Dfi, dhm, digm, dih, diim, dij, dik, dima, dimb, dimbo, Dimdi, dimi, dimm, dimmi, dimo, Dimov, dimp, Dimu, Dimx, dimy, dio, diom, diq, dium, Diuma, diw, diy, djin, Dlimi, Dlimy, dmi, Dmin, dmt, doim, dpm, Dpmi, drim, driom, dtm, Duhm, duim, dum, dumm, dvin, dwin, dxi, dxm, dyk, dym, dyn, edim, eim, fimm, iddm, iiim, jm, odim, oim, tim, Udizma, Uim. (additional references)