dim
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- adjective
- /dɪm/
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tenue
- The setting sun cast a dim light over the quiet street.
- dim light
- dim lighting
- a dim room
Feel like you're at the round table of dim lighting with this jar.
- Feel like you're at the round table of dim lighting with this jar.
- The voice fails, the eyes grow dim, the ears buzz, the limbs totter.
- But you do keep your home quite dim to dark at night.
- Lutron does their own proprietary dimmers, dim lighting and motor control stuff.
- So it looks like red and very dim lights, dim red and bright red.
- The sun was just this dim little disk in the sky.
- The stove is in the centre of the house, where it is dim and cool.
- It's like a very dim studio light.
- So for me, it's screens off, it's dim lights.
Examples
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"Morotai Island," he wrote in the dim light of a new Christmas morning.
Fiction book (1990) -
But you do keep your home quite dim to dark at night.
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The game is playing, but it's too dim to see.
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The light inside you is dim even by Eastern European standards.
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And it's pretty dim light.
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The alley was dark; just the one dim light over the back entrance.
Fiction book (1990) -
I squeezed her hand and walked into the dim morning light.
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Vivian starts roughly picking up her clothes in the dim light of the bedroom.
Fiction book (1990) -
The building was dark except for a dim light, as from a single lamp burning in Theo's office.
Fiction book (1990) -
For a few moments, we stood very still in a dim cathedral hush.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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With little or no light and not bright
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Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid
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Not bright or shiny with weak colour
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Soft and not bright, like pale colors or quiet sounds
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A weak light that is not bright
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Not having enough light so things look dark
Less bright when someone turns the light down
A place with less light than usual
Not bright in color and not very interesting
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Compounds
How Bright
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dim comes from an old English word dimm meaning 'dark' or 'faint'. So a dim place or light is one that has only a little brightness.