Crossword clues for dim
dim
- Lower, as headlights
- Lose luster
- Poorly illuminated
- None too swift
- Like a dungeon
- Lacking light
- Far from sharp
- Slow to understand
- None too brainy
- Lower the lights
- Like romantic lighting
- Switch to low beam
- Not so smart
- Lacking in brightness
- ___ sum (Chinese dish)
- Unlikely to happen
- Turn down, in a way
- Turn down, as a light
- Take a ___ view of (be unimpressed by)
- Soul Asylum "Let Your ___ Light Shine"
- Skeptical, as a view
- On the dark side
- Not real smart
- Not quite Mensa material
- Not bright, as a light
- Make darker
- Like a very low-watt bulb
- Like 10-watt light bulbs
- Kinda stupid
- Badly illuminated
- Without much light
- With lights on low
- What the lights do before the band comes out
- Turn down low, as a light
- Turn down a little, as lights
- Turn down (lights)
- Take a ___ view of (regard skeptically)
- Subdued, as shades
- Soften, as lighting
- Sharp as a marble
- Reduce in brightness
- Rather unlikely
- Rather stupid
- Not very bright, like an old light bulb
- Not the sharpest crayon in the box
- Not shining brightly
- Not exactly Einstein
- Not even close to bright
- Not all that bright, as a light or a person
- Muted, as lights
- Minimally lit
- Low, like lights
- Lit poorly
- Lit a bit
- Like the light from a low-wattage bulb
- Like the light at twilight
- Like the dawn's early light
- Like night-lights
- Like low-watt bulbs
- Like a rocker on tour too long, perhaps
- Like a low-wattage lightbulb
- Like a low-wattage bulb
- Like a faint light
- Like a 10-watt lightbulb
- Like a 10-watt light bulb
- Lights during Barry White listening session
- Lightly lighted
- Lacking sufficient lighting
- Just a bit lit
- Imprecisely remembered
- Headlight switch
- Hardly promising
- Hardly lit
- Hardly bright
- Hard to read by, as light
- Donna Summer "___ All the Lights"
- Dampen, as a headlight
- Barely turned on
- Barely perceptible, say
- Auto-light setting
- A little thick
- A few clowns short of a circus
- ___-witted (stupid)
- __ sum: Chinese food tidbits
- Chinese food: turn down whole lot
- Unclear total for Chinese food
- Turn down, as lights
- Slow-witted Dada song?
- Like a low-watt bulb
- With 38-Down, a Chinese dish
- Not too smart
- Barely lit
- Headlight setting
- Like 10-watt bulbs
- Not too intelligent
- Lower, in a way
- None too smart
- Obtuse
- Not too brainy
- Not smart
- Not brilliant
- Not well-defined
- Unfavorable
- A bit thick
- Lower, as the lights
- Bubbleheaded
- Darken
- Barely shining
- Low-I.Q.
- Empty-headed
- Not too sharp
- Dark
- A bit slow
- Slow on the uptake
- Not too bright
- Sharp as a bowling ball
- Not bright at all
- 10-watt, say
- Thickheaded
- Poorly lit
- Opposite of bright
- Not at all sharp
- Like distant stars
- Indistinct
- Cloudy
- Obscure
- Opacate
- Vaguely viewed
- Kind of view taken, at times
- Ill-lit
- Feebleminded
- Barely visible
- Dull, as a light
- Faintly lit
- Like lovers' lights
- Lower the beam
- Poorly lighted
- Darkish
- Unclear
- Switch to low beams
- Headlights setting
- Becloud
- Turn down the lights
- Kind of wit or view
- Murky
- Obfuscated
- Not very bright, really
- Gloomy doctor holds one up
- Given dunce's cap, Knut's stupid
- End of crossword — I am needing a bit of illumination?
- Wearing dunce's hat, I'm a little bit slow
- Not well lit
- Not clear? Write up its position in grid
- Faded image partly indistinct
- Badly lit
- Taking only starter in dinner, I am faint
- Not clear
- Hard to see in
- Not sharp
- Lacking luster
- Hard to make out
- Not well-lit
- Lacking brightness
- Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- Lower, as lights
- Reduce in intensity
- Make less bright
- Not very likely
- Not so bright
- A few bricks shy of a load
- Somewhat dark
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dim \Dim\, v. i.
To grow dim.
--J. C. Shairp.
Dim \Dim\, a. [Compar. Dimmer; superl. Dimmest.] [AS. dim; akin to OFries. dim, Icel. dimmr: cf. MHG. timmer, timber; of uncertain origin.]
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Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
The dim magnificence of poetry.
--Whewell.How is the gold become dim!
--Lam. iv. 1.I never saw The heavens so dim by day.
--Shak.Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
--Wordsworth. -
Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
--Job xvii. 7.The understanding is dim.
--Rogers.Note: Obvious compounds: dim-eyed; dim-sighted, etc.
Syn: Obscure; dusky; dark; mysterious; imperfect; dull; sullied; tarnished.
Dim \Dim\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dimmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dimming.]
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To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants.
--Dryden.Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways.
--Cowper. -
To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
Her starry eyes were dimmed with streaming tears.
--C. Pitt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English dimm "dark, gloomy, obscure," from Proto-Germanic *dimbaz (cognates: Old Norse dimmr, Old Frisian dim, Old High German timber "dark, black, somber"). Not known outside Germanic. Slang sense of "stupid" is from 1892. Related: Dimly; dimness.
c.1200, perhaps in Old English, from dim (adj.). Related: Dimmed; dimming.
Wiktionary
1 Not bright or colorful. 2 (cx colloquial English) Not smart or intelligent. 3 indistinct, hazy or unclear. 4 disapproving, unfavorable: {{non-gloss definition|rarely used outside the phrase (term take a dim view of English).}} adv. (context obsolete English) dimly, indistinctly. n. (context archaic English) dimness. v
1 (context transitive English) To make something less bright. 2 (context intransitive English) To become darker. 3 To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse. 4 To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
WordNet
adj. lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" [syn: subdued]
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" [syn: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy]
made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner" [syn: dimmed] [ant: undimmed]
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" [syn: black, bleak]
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" [syn: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
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"
make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"
make dim by comparison or conceal [syn: blind]
become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" [syn: blur, slur] [ant: focus]
Wikipedia
Dim is the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band The Gazette. It was released on July 15, 2009 in Japan. It includes the three lead up singles: " Guren", " Leech", and " Distress and Coma". The album scored #2 on the Oricon Daily Charts and #5 on the Oricon Weekly Charts, selling 37,797 copies in its first week.
Dim may refer to:
- A low level of lighting; lacking in brightness
- Dimmer, a device to vary the brightness
- A keyword that declares a variable or array, in most versions of BASIC
- Stupidity, a lack of intelligence
- Dim (album), the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band The Gazette
- Dim, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
The abbreviation dim may refer to:
- Deportivo Independiente Medellín, a Colombian football club
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Dimension, a measure of how many parameters is sufficient to describe an object in mathematics
- Dimension (vector space), the number of vectors needed to describe the basis in a vector space, in linear algebra
- Diminished triad, a dissonant chord with a minor third and diminished fifth to the root in music theory
- Diminuendo, a word indicating changes of dynamics in music
- Diminutive, a formation of a word
- Diploma in Management, a non-academic management designation awarded in Diploma Programs
The abbreviation dIm may mean:
- Some types of a dwarf irregular galaxy; a small galaxy ( dwarf galaxy, "d") which contains a not easily classified structure ( irregular galaxy, "Im") that is not spiral ("Sm"). It can also be abbreviated "dI" or "dIrr".
DIM may also refer to:
- 3,3'-Diindolylmethane, an anticarcinogen compound
- Dirección de Inteligencia Militar, the military intelligence agency of Venezuela
- Data In Motion, a term used in data encryption; compare with Data at Rest.
DIM Motor Company, a Greek automobile maker, was created by Georgios Dimitriadis as a successor to his earlier company, Bioplastic S.A., which had produced the Attica automobile. The DIM represented one more effort by Mr. Dimitriadis to design and develop a modern car entirely by his company's own means. A 400cc, air-cooled, 2-cylinder, 30-hp engine was also developed in-house to power the vehicle, but due to delays in the engine development, the car was introduced with a 600cc engine and other mechanical parts of the Fiat 126 model. A 650cc Fiat engine was also used, in an improved version. The car was finally introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in 1977, and for this reason received more publicity than most Greek vehicles, appearing in many international publications. All development work had been made in a factory intended for its production in Acharnes, while the company was advertised in the Greek press; plans were also made for more versions, including a sports coupe. However, the costs involved and the car's poor prospects in the Greek market (despite an effort to facelift the model) resulted in termination of production after only about ten had been produced. The whole project was abandoned in 1982, having been Georgios Dimitriadis' last venture in the automotive industry.
Usage examples of "dim".
The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.
The world that you see in dim light is similar to the world of the achromat, that rare person who has no color vision at all.
After the actinic glow of the drive, the white heat of the drive components seemed dim by comparison.
From some dim adytum the recorded carols of a private celebration could be heard, and some laughter.
Tarrant entered the aeroponics room, the gleaming white PVC pipe and enameled steel in shining contrast to the dim red of the fishery.
But that seemed to dim from his mind now as the reality of Algor impressed itself upon him.
This was the person who had driven my car through the night five months before--the person I had not seen since that brief call when he had forgotten the oldtime doorbell signal and stirred such nebulous fears in me--and now he filled me with the same dim feeling of blasphemous alienage and ineffable cosmic hideousness.
This was the person who had driven my car through the night five months before - the person I had not seen since that brief call when he had forgotten the oldtime doorbell signal and stirred such nebulous fears in me - and now he filled me with the same dim feeling of blasphemous alienage and ineffable cosmic hideousness.
Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm?
He stared at the dim armory, ashamed of the way he had treated the only man who had remained his friend throughout this whole mess.
The house was not yet astir and the hall was dim behind the shutters that had been drawn for the night.
Surrounding Atene, they led her from the Sanctuary, accompanied by her uncle the Shaman, who, as it seemed to me, either through fatigue or fear, could scarcely stand upon his feet, but stood blinking his dim eyes as though the light dazed him.
Rhapsody watched as the bright celestial light dimmed in the brightening sky, then began to sing her last customary aubade, the song to Seren, the star she was born beneath, on the other side of the world.
Their bond made Tarrant sensitive to her aura, but turning her focus inward dimmed her auric energy as if she was really sleeping.
She lay back on the bed, staring through the transparent roof at the lazy winding valleys beyond the dimming axial light-tube.