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dimmest
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam [syn: dip ] become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown" [syn: darken ] [ant: brighten ] become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dim \Dim\, a. [Compar. Dimmer ; superl. Dimmest .] [AS. dim; akin to OFries. dim, Icel. dimmr: cf. MHG. timmer, timber; of uncertain origin.] Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; ...
Usage examples of dimmest.
Soldiers clung to the scaffolding, fish-eyed and blinking, while Bransian waved a fresh cresset toward the cranny that lay dimmest and farthest from the stairshaft.
Above arched a dim sky like a stupendous inverted hollow cup of dimmest jade .
Nothing happened, but Vaelam was already pointing into the farthest, dimmest corner of the chamber.
With only the dimmest dresser light on, she bent over the crib and smiled at her son.
The moon peered through gnarled fingers of clouds, but, even at its dimmest, cast enough light for him to see.
The dimmest of memories are all that remain, and even they are succumbing to the gathering gloom!
Although the Janus Gate was now lit only by the dimmest of flickers at its heart, Sulu paused to scan the ground again and see if he could find any footprints or tracks in the icy crust.
My first words must have been English, for I have always dreamed of talking in that language, and my dimmest half recollections of the old days are of a large, white house, and a soft-voiced black woman, who sang to me in that language the very sweetest songs in the world.
Gradually entering into the intense life of the summer days--a life which burned around as if every grass blade and leaf were a torch--I came to feel the longdrawn life of the earth back into the dimmest past, while the sun of the moment was warm on me.
Magdeburg at midnight, however, Grantville at its dimmest had been lit up like downtown Las Vegas on a Saturday night.
I made change absently, pointed out the neatly lettered signs above the various sections, and occasionally forayed into the aisles to help the dimmest find textbooks.
Now he was among them for an indefinite period of time, with only the most casual of warnings, the dimmest of preparations.
The wind tossed and agitated the corn on both sides of the road, drowning all sound, but in the dimmest light Ludwig could see the monster was gone.
God-Man moved as surely as if he could count every leg on an ant in the dimmest corner of the chamber where the hunter lay.
He convinced them he had only the dimmest notion how his ship worked, that he knew how to fly it and that was all he bothered to learn, why should he stuff his head with more.