Adjective dim has 5 senses
- dim, subdued - lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
Antonym: light (indirect, via dark)
- dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy - 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"
Antonym: distinct (indirect, via indistinct)
- dimmed, dim - made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"
- black, bleak, dim - 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"
Antonym: hopeful (indirect, via hopeless)
- dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow - 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"
Antonym: smart (indirect, via stupid)
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Noun dimmer has 1 sense
- dimmer - a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination
--1 is a kind of rheostat, variable resistor
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