dimmishadj.
/ˈdɪmɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈdɪmɪʃ/ Somewhat dim.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > somewhat dim
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1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 96 Its flame is not clear..but of a dimmish Brimstone colour.
1727 J. Swift Stella's Birth-day: 1724 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. iii. 162 My Eyes are somewhat dimmish grown.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 899 Our eyes have got rather dimmish.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxvi. 313 We was a standing there in the dimmish light.
1967 A. Laski Seven Other Years xiii. 183 An amiable but..‘dimmish’ heavy~weight of fifteen.
1969 J. Drummond People in Glass House xvii. 72 She was a sort of goose-girl type... Dimmish. But pretty.
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