Dim

Adjective

 * 1) not bright or colorful
 * 2) not smart or intelligent
 * 3) indistinct, hazy or unclear
 * 4) disapproving, unfavorable, rarely used outside the phrase "take a dim view of".

Verb

 * 1)  To make something less bright.
 * 2)  To become darker.

Adverbs for Dim
mysteriously; obscurely; strangely; curiously; oddly; nebulously; dully; faintly; cloudily; confusingly; perplexingly; disturbingly; wretchedly; miserably; pallidly; imperceptibly; unaccountably; plaguedly; infernally; dreadfully.

Adverbs for Dim
scarcely; mystically; prematurely; dramatically; awesomely; effectively; abruptly; perceptibly.

Synonyms for Dim
obscure, blurred, shadowy, shaded, gloomy, misty, indefinite, indistinct, clouded, dull, mysterious, faint, opaque.

Antonyms for Dim
clear, bright, brilliant, glossy, distinct, burnished.

Thesaurus
achromatic, achromatize, achromic, amorphous, anemic, ashen, ashy, banausic, bandage, barely audible, becloud, bedarken, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, benight, black, black out, blacken, blah, blanch, bleach, blear, blear-eyed, bleared, bleary, bleary-eyed, bled white, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, block the light, bloodless, blot out, blunt, blunt-witted, blur, blurred, blurry, brown, cadaverous, caliginous, cast a shadow, chloranemic, clear as mud, cloud, cloud over, cloudy, colorless, confused, dark, dark-colored, darken, darken over, darkish, darkle, darksome, daze, dazzle, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolor, decolorize, decrescendo, defocus, deprive of sight, dim out, dim-eyed, dim-sighted, dim-witted, dimmed, dimmish, dimpsy, dingy, discolor, discolored, distant, dopey, drain, drain of color, dreary, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-sighted, dull-witted, dusk, dusky, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, etiolate, etiolated, excecate, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, faint-voiced, fallow, fat-witted, feeble, feeble-eyed, film, filmy, filmy-eyed, flat, fog, foggy, fume, fuzzy, gentle, ghastly, glare, gloam, gloom, gloomy, gouge, gravel-blind, gray, gross-headed, grow dark, grow dim, haggard, half-blind, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, haze, hazy, heavy, hebetudinous, hoodwink, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, ill-defined, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, lackluster, leaden, livid, lose resolution, low, low-profile, lower, lurid, lusterless, make blind, mat, mealy, merely glimpsed, mist, misty, mole-eyed, monotone, monotonous, muddy, murk, murksome, murky, murmured, muted, nebulous, neutral, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obtuse, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, out of focus, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedestrian, peroxide, pianissimo, piano, poky, purblind, sallow, sand-blind, scarcely heard, semidark, semivisible, shade, shadow, shadowy, shapeless, sickly, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, snow-blind, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, soften, somber, stodgy, strike blind, subaudible, subdued, subfusc, tallow-faced, tarnish, tenebrous, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, tone down, toneless, transcendent, uncertain, unclear, uncolored, undefined, undetermined, unilluminated, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen, weak, weak-eyed, weak-voiced, whey-faced, whispered, white, whiten, wooden

Etymology
dimm:. Compare Icelandic dimmur ("dark") and dimma ("darkness").

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: мътен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (hūnànde)
 * Czech: tmavý, mdlý
 * Dutch:, schemerachtig, ,
 * Finnish: himmeä
 * French: ,
 * German: dämmerig, schummrig
 * Greek:, ,


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: fénytelen,,  opálos
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese: 薄暗い, ほの暗い
 * Norwegian:, dimt,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: మసక (masaka)


 * Bulgarian: неясен, замъглен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (móhúde)
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:, δυσδιάκριτος


 * Hungarian:, ,  ködbe vesző (due to foggy surroundings)
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: неясный (nejásnyj), смутный (smútnyj)
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (chídùnde)
 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: κουτός
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian:


 * : 薄暗い


 * : 희미한 (hwimihan)
 * : fraco, sombrio, vago, não ofuscante

Verb

 * Bulgarian: помътнявам
 * Greek: θαμπώνω, θολώνω
 * Italian:, , , ,


 * Russian: затемнять


 * Bulgarian: потъмнявам
 * Italian:


 * Russian:

Derived terms

 * dimly
 * dimmer

Anagrams

 * IDM
 * MDI
 * mid

Etymology
From duim:.

Noun

 * 1) thumb

Etymology
From dimmr:. Related to English dim and Icelandic dimmur.

Noun
(m and f), dimt (n), dimme (pl)


 * 1) dim
 * 2) to have bad vision
 * Han er dim på synet
 * His vision is dim/bad

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) smoke

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) smoke (particles and vapor/vapour given off by burning material)

Adjective
dim


 * 1) any
 * 2) no, not, none

Noun
dim


 * 1) anything
 * 2) nothing, none, nil