dim

• (s) lacking in light; not bright or harsh
  • a dim light beside the bed
  • subdued lights and soft music
  subdued,
• (s) 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
  faint, shadowy, wispy, vague,
• (a) made dim or less bright
  • the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation
  • dimmed headlights
  • we like dimmed lights when we have dinner
  dimmed,
• (s) 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
  bleak, black,
• (s) 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
  dumb, slow, dense, obtuse, dull,

Verbs

• (v) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam dip,
• (v) become dim or lusterless
  • the lights dimmed and the curtain rose
• (v) make dim or lusterless
  • Time had dimmed the silver
• (v) make dim by comparison or conceal blind,
• (v) become vague or indistinct
  • The distinction between the two theories blurred
  slur, blur,

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Words of close approximity