| dim | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dimmed |
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| (adjective) lacking in light; not bright or harsh | Synonyms: subdued |
| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, bleak |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
| grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
| interim | (adjective) serving during an intermediate interval of time | - |
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| prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
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| slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
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| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
| trim | (adjective) severely simple in line or design | Synonyms: tailored |
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| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: spare |
| (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept |
| (adjective) neat and smart in appearance | Synonyms: clean-cut, trig |
| verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
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