"the future looked black" "prospects were bleak" "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M. "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation" "dimmed headlights" "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"įaint, dull, obtuse, shadowy, dense, slow, vague, dumb, dimmed, wispy, black, bleak, subdued Weak, shady, dull, 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 "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" "a dim light beside the bed" "subdued lights and soft music"ĭull, low-key, hushed, dumb, dense, muted, soft, dimmed, black, quiet, vague, subdued, low-keyed, faint, wispy, obtuse, shadowy, bleak, slowĭim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy adjective Princeton's WordNet Rate these antonyms: 2.9 / 9 votes See MYSTERIOUS OBSCURE.īright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, whiteīlack, dark, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthy Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. informal), lamebrain (informal), numbskull or numskull Frankly, only a dimwit would say that. Dim is also used to mean ‘not likely to happen’ and ‘not clear to the mind.’ Informally, a dim person is a stupid person. dimwit noun (Informal) idiot, bonehead (slang), dunce, dullard, ignoramus, nitwit (informal), blockhead, fathead (informal), booby, dumb-ass (slang), gobshite (Irish taboo slang), dunderhead, numpty (Scot. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil as, a dark deed. As an adjective, dim means ‘lacking light’ and ‘not seen clearly or in detail.’ It also means ‘not seeing clearly,’ like when our eyes are filled with tears. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy as, a murky den a murky sky. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. 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. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless the night is dark, tho the stars shine. Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light.
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