dim

Senso (English)

1. Not bright or colorful.
2. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
3. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
4. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.

dark

obscure

not bright

grow foggy

hard to see

obnubilate

opacify

very bleak

birdbrained

cloudylike

devoid of brightness

without splendour

said of the eye

become dull

interfere with

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dɪm/

From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur (“dark”), Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).

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