Antonyms for DIM
dɪmdim

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dim

   Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.

   Compare synonyms for LIGHT.

   Antonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white

   Synonyms:
   black, dark, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthy

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.9 / 9 votes

1. dim, subduedadjective

   lacking in light; not bright or harsh

   "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"

   Antonyms:
   light, smart, distinct, hopeful

   Synonyms:
   dull, low-key, hushed, dumb, dense, dim, muted, soft, dimmed, black, quiet, vague, subdued, low-keyed, faint, wispy, obtuse, shadowy, bleak, slow

2. dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispyadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   distinct, hopeful, smart, light

   Synonyms:
   weak, shady, dull, dim, wraithlike, dumb, shadowed, dense, faint-hearted, timid, undefined, swooning, dimmed, black, umbrageous, vague, fainthearted, subdued, feeble, faint, lightheaded, obscure, wispy, obtuse, light, shadowy, light-headed, wisplike, bleak, slow

3. dimmed, dimadjective

   made dim or less bright

   "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

   Antonyms:
   hopeful, light, distinct, smart

   Synonyms:
   faint, dull, obtuse, shadowy, dense, slow, dim, vague, dumb, dimmed, wispy, black, bleak, subdued

4. black, bleak, dimadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   hopeful, distinct, smart, light

   Synonyms:
   blackened, cutting, fatal, subdued, bootleg, faint, disgraceful, slow, calamitous, dumb, dark, dense, bare, raw, black, fateful, wispy, smuggled, inglorious, desolate, dim, pitch-dark, pitch-black, grim, mordant, stark, dull, contraband, dimmed, shameful, disastrous, smutty, shadowy, barren, ignominious, vague, bleak, black-market, opprobrious, obtuse, sinister

5. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slowverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   light, distinct, smart, hopeful

   Synonyms:
   vague, ho-hum, muted, sluggish, subdued, deadening, faint, mute, slow, thudding, boring, dumb, dense, irksome, black, silent, wispy, heavy, dim, purblind, muffled, tedious, impenetrable, dull, dimmed, speechless, shadowy, tiresome, softened, bleak, thick, wearisome, obtuse, leaden

6. dim, dipverb

   switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

   Antonyms:
   light, smart, hopeful, distinct

   Synonyms:
   plunge, blur, douse, souse, dip, slur, duck, dim, sink, blind, dunk

7. dimverb

   become dim or lusterless

   "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"

   Antonyms:
   light, distinct, smart, hopeful

   Synonyms:
   slur, blind, blur, dip

8. dimverb

   make dim or lusterless

   "Time had dimmed the silver"

   Antonyms:
   hopeful, distinct, smart, light

   Synonyms:
   slur, blind, blur, dip

9. blind, dimverb

   make dim by comparison or conceal

   Antonyms:
   distinct, smart, light, hopeful

   Synonyms:
   slur, blind, blur, dim, dip

10. blur, dim, slurverb

    become vague or indistinct

    "The distinction between the two theories blurred"

    Antonyms:
    light, distinct, smart, hopeful

    Synonyms:
    smear, glaze over, smudge, slur, blur, blear, dip, dim, obnubilate, obscure, blind, confuse, film over, smutch

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1. dimadjective

   Antonyms:
   bright, vivid, intense, clear

   Synonyms:
   obscure, indistinct, faint, sullied, blurred

2. dimverb

   Synonyms:
   bedim, obscure, darken, dull, eclipse, blur, tarnish

How to use DIM in a sentence?

1. Andrew Schneider:

   Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt.

2. Miha Hribenik:

   The prospects of North Korea dismantling its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals remain as dim as ever, once the cameras are switched off and the enthusiasm over Friday's summit declaration -- which promises a peaceful and nuclear-free Korean peninsula -- subsides, both sides will need to roll up their sleeves and get to work.

3. Andrea Dupree:

   With Only Hubble, we see the material as Only Hubble left the star's visible surface and moved out through the atmosphere, before the dust formed that caused the star to appear to dim, only Hubble gives us this evidence of what led up to the dimming.

4. Maurice Chevalier:

   Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

5. Robert Byrne:

   Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)

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