dim
adj 1: lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside
the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" [syn: {subdued}]
2: 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" [syn: {faint},
{shadowy}, {vague}, {wispy}]
3: made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a
hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like
dimmed lights when we have dinner" [syn: {dimmed}] [ant: {undimmed}]
4: 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" [syn: {black}, {bleak}]
5: 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"
[syn: {dense}, {dull}, {dumb}, {obtuse}, {slow}]
v 1: switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam
[syn: {dip}]
2: become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened
the colors by adding brown" [syn: {darken}] [ant: {brighten}]
3: become dim or lusterless; "dim the lights"
4: make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"
5: make dim by comparison or conceal [syn: {blind}]
6: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two
theories blurred" [syn: {blur}, {slur}] [ant: {focus}]