Synonym: darkish, faint, indistinct, pale, vague, weak. Antonym: bright, light. Similar words: dimmer, diminish, dimension, diminution, diminutive, impediment, dimensions. Meaning: [dɪm] v. 1. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam 2. become or make darker 3. become dim or lusterless 4. make dim or lusterless 5. make dim by comparison or conceal 6. become vague or indistinct. adj. 1. lacking in light; not bright or harsh 2. lacking clarity or distinctness 3. made dim or less bright 4. offering little or no hope 5. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
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(121) They pile up brushwood to dim her in lolloping flames.
(122) Her face seemed ageless in the dim light, and she was stifling shivers.
(123) No one dared to object to him directly about his dim light, though some people grumbled about it in loud whispers.
(124) The square of light was dim and small now, the air was warm and damp and smelled of creosote.
(125) High, high ceilings, like in a cathedral - dim, dusty, bare.
(126) Dim lights shone in brown parlour windows and there was a trail of yellow in the purpling sky behind the chimneys.
(127) The majority offer hi-tech light shows or dim the arena for the pregame introductions.
(128) He felt at bay, like a very dim minister facing a hostile House.
(129) They saw nothing but a dim grayness, or was it blackness?
(130) The front door squeaks to a close and eyes need a few seconds to adjust to the dim interior.
(131) I'm playing a guy who's well-meaning but kind of dim.
(132) The dim glow of passing headlights makes his shaved head and the shades propped on top of it shine.
(133) I hope that the Minister is not back-tracking on them because we would take a dim view of that.
(134) For some one who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral,(http://sentencedict.com/dim.html) Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment.
(135) Outlined against the dim glow from outside, his tall silhouette filled the open doorway.
(136) My dim recollection was that there was discussion of such questions in Mary Shelley's novel.
(137) At the moment it was half open, the dim light in the hall looking cool and restful after the outside glare.
(138) The lamp's dim yellow light showed him to be seated, or rather slumped, in his big armchair.
(139) That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past.
(140) It was only a dim personification: something vague and immense which with its motion brought about change and therefore was alive.
(141) The voices had become very dim, barely audible; but something else had grown penetratingly strong.
(142) The two men looked at each other in the dim light, their faces grey and weary.
(143) I sat in the dim light, hushed and amazed at my own perplexity.
(144) His own father had died when he was four and he had only dim memories of him.
(145) Dying embers gave out a dim glow in the hearth.
(146) His face shadowed by the dim light, he crept out and slipped through a door behind the bridge.
(147) Then he slumps forward, face down, turned away from the last bit of dim illumination offered by the night sky.
(148) The shape of Cancer always reminds me of a very dim and ghostly Orion.
(149) The tendency of bureaucrats to take a dim view of whistle-blowers is particularly marked in the military.
(150) There was enough starlight coming in the window to make out the dim shapes of bunkbeds and rucksacks.