bedimmed
9.9
Made less bright and hard to see by things like tears or dust
- adjective
- /bɪˈdɪmd/
- Literature
:
atenuado
- The room appeared bedimmed by the heavy curtains blocking the sunlight.
Examples
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His father's figure faded gradually in his bedimmed eye.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her memories of the event were bedimmed by time, growing more indistinct.
-
As night fell, the sky became bedimmed, obscuring the stars.
Synonyms
washed-out
vsbedimmed
4
4.4
A color or object that has lost brightness and looks pale
refers to reduced brightness or obscuring, not only color fading
1
9.9
In darkness after night falls
is milder, meaning made less bright or partly obscured
underlit
vsbedimmed
1
5.3
Not having enough light so things look dark
is about being made less bright or obscured rather than poor lighting
dimmed
vsbedimmed
2.5
Less bright when someone turns the light down
is literary and implies being obscured and made less distinct
Antonyms
How Dim
Surface Forms
bedimmed positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word bedimmed comes from the old prefix be- meaning 'make' plus the common word dim, which means 'not bright'. So bedimmed means 'made less bright', and that is why we use it for eyes, moonlight, or colours that become faint or unclear.