DIM meaning: Lacking brightness or vividness; dull

We found 47 dictionaries that define the word dim:

General (30 matching dictionaries)

dim: Merriam-Webster.com
dim, dim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dim, dim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dim: Collins English Dictionary
dim: Vocabulary.com
Dim, dim: Wordnik
dim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Dim, dim: Wiktionary
dim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dim: Infoplease Dictionary
dim, dim: Dictionary.com
dim: Online Etymology Dictionary
dim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
DIM (automobiles), DIM, Dim (album), Dim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
dim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
dim: Rhymezone
dim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
dim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
dim: Free Dictionary
dim: Mnemonic Dictionary
dim: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
dim, dim: Dictionary/thesaurus
dim: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

dim: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

DIM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
DIM: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
DIM: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
DIM, dim: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

DIM: Acronym Finder
DIM: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
dim: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

DIM: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

dim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
dim: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
dim: The Folk File
D.I.M, dim: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

DIM: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See diming as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Not bright or colorful.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
▸ adjective:  Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
▸ adjective:  Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Dimness.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make something less bright.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become darker.
▸ verb:  To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
▸ verb:  To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
▸ verb:  (figurative) To diminish, dull, or curtail.
▸ noun:  A male given name.
▸ adjective:  (music) Clipping of diminished. [lessened, reduced]

Similar:

bleak, dumb, indistinct, faint, obtuse, blur, dark, darken, dense, hopeless, more...

Opposite:

bright, luminous, radiant, glowing, brilliant

Types:

sullen, gloomy, somber, melancholy, dreary, more...

Phrases:

dim sum, dim statement, dim bulb, dim spot, dim bulbs, more...

Adjectives:

click, such, new, private, old, low, three, poor, connect, interf, one

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