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单词 dim
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dimadjective

uk/dɪm/us/dɪm/dimmer, dimmest

dim adjective (NOT CLEAR)

C2 not giving or having much light:

The lamp gave out a dim light.
He sat in a dim corner of the waiting room.
We could see a dim (= not easily seen) shape in the fog.

literary If your eyes are dim, you cannot see very well.

a dim memory, recollection, etc.

C2 something that you remember slightly, but not very well:

I had a dim recollection of having met her before.

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Darkness & becoming dark

  • black
  • black sth out
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • dark
  • darken
  • deepen
  • dingy
  • draw
  • draw in
  • dull
  • gloomy
  • half-light
  • inky
  • moonless
  • pitch-dark
  • shady
  • silhouette
  • Stygian
  • the gloaming

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Eyesight, glasses & lenses
Memory and memories

dim adjective (NOT CLEVER)

informal not very clever:

He's a nice guy, but a little dim.
UK Don't be so dim!

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Stupid and silly

  • (as) thick as two short planks idiom
  • absurd
  • adolescent
  • against your better judgment idiom
  • asinine
  • be crazy about sb/sth idiom
  • dotty
  • dozy
  • drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly idiom
  • drivel
  • dumb
  • gibber
  • laughable
  • loony
  • loopy
  • lumpen
  • lumpish
  • slow
  • witless
  • wrongheaded

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dim adjective (NOT POSITIVE)

not likely to succeed:

The company's prospects for the future are rather dim.

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Not hopeful

  • be in a funk idiom
  • be on a hiding to nothing idiom
  • chance
  • defeatist
  • dejected
  • give up on sb/sth
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grim
  • hiding
  • hope
  • lose
  • negative
  • negativity
  • not give much for sb's chances idiom
  • not have a hope in hell idiom
  • pessimism
  • pessimistic
  • prophet
  • win

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dimly
adverb uk/ˈdɪm.li/us/ˈdɪm.li/

The room was dimly lit.
I dimly remembered reading the book a few years before.
dimness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈdɪm.nəs/us/ˈdɪm.nəs/

Idiom(s)

dim and distant
the dim and distant past
take a dim view of sth

dimverb [ I or T ]

uk/dɪm/us/dɪm/-mm-

C2 to (make something) become less bright:

Someone dimmed the lights.
The lights dimmed and the curtains opened.

literary to (make a positive feeling or quality) become less strong:

Our hopes/expectations dimmed as the hours passed.

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Darkness & becoming dark

  • black
  • black sth out
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • dark
  • darken
  • deepen
  • dingy
  • draw
  • draw in
  • dull
  • gloomy
  • half-light
  • inky
  • moonless
  • pitch-dark
  • shady
  • silhouette
  • Stygian
  • the gloaming

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Becoming and making less strong
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