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Definition of dim

"dim" in the verb sense

1. dim, dip

switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

2. dim

become dim or lusterless

"the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"

3. dim

make dim or lusterless

"Time had dimmed the silver"

4. blind, dim

make dim by comparison or conceal

5. blur, dim, slur

become vague or indistinct

"The distinction between the two theories blurred"

"dim" in the adjective sense

1. dim, subdued

lacking in light not bright or harsh

"a dim light beside the bed"

"subdued lights and soft music"

2. dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy

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"

3. dimmed, dim

made dim or less bright

"the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"

"dimmed headlights"

"we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

4. black, bleak, dim

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"

5. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow

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"

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Quotations for dim

My eyes are dim with childish tears. [ Wordsworth ]

The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim. [ Barry Cornwall ]

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
Or Cytherea's breath. [ William Shakespeare ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim.
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength - a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one! [ William Shakespeare ]

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains - Beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learned the language of another world. [ Byron ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

No tears dim the sweet look that Nature wears. [ Longfellow ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. [ Rivarol ]

What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. [ Longfellow ]

I clasp thy waist, I feel thy bosom's beat - oh, kiss me into faintness sweet and dim! [ Alexander Smith ]

In her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn the language of another world. [ Byron ]

Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. [ Richter ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us, as village children, a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us by its old perfume, an indescribable transport back into godlike childhood; and how, like a flower goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora clouds of our first dim feelings! [ Richter ]

Who is there who has not experienced that often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us as village children a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us. by its old perfume an indescribable transport back into godlike childhood; and how, like a flower-goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora-clouds of our first dim feelings? [ Richter ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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dim in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of dim

2 letter words in dim (2 words)

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3 letter words in dim (Anagrams) (2 words)

dim mid

dim + 1 blank (7 words)

amid dime dims maid midi mild mind

dim + 2 blanks (33 words)

admin admit admix aimed amide bedim deism demit denim dimer dimes dimly humid idiom imbed imide imped limed maids media medic midas midst mimed minds mined mired misdo mixed rimed timed timid undim

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Words containing the sequence dim

Words that start with dim (145 words)

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Words with dim in them (134 words)

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Words that end with dim (3 words)

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dime dimethyl dimethylhydrazine dimethylhydrazines

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dime dimethyl dimethylnitrosamine dimethylnitrosamines

dime dimethyl dimethylpyrimidine dimethylpyrimidines

dime dimethyl dimethylsulfoxide dimethylsulfoxides

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dime dimethyl dimethyltryptamine dimethyltryptamines

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dime dimethyl thexyldimethylsilyl

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