Crossword clues for dimmest
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.]
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativedim)
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]
See dim
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.