Definition of Dim

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Definition of Dim

Dim

Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.

Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.

To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.

To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.

To grow dim.

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Dim Quotations

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James

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 amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
Richard Harris Barham

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.
Murray Gell-Mann

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Jim Bishop

Dim Translations

dim in Afrikaans is donker, duister
dim in Dutch is schemerig
dim in Italian is semibuio, torbida, appannato
dim in Norwegian is dempe, matt, svak, uklar
dim in Spanish is oscuro, turbio, lasto, crepuscular
dim in Swedish is dimensionera, oklar

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