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 |
(verb) make dim or lusterless | - |
(verb) become dim or lusterless | - |
(verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: blind |
(verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: blur, slur |
(verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dip |
dime | (noun) street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars | Synonyms: dime bag |
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(noun) a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar | - |
dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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dimension | (noun) the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height) | - |
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(noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: proportion |
(noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, property |
(noun) one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space | - |
(verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
(verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
dimensional | (adjective) of or relating to dimensions | - |
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(adjective) having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person | - |
dimensionality | (noun) the spatial property of having dimensions | - |
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dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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dimer | (noun) a compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers | - |
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dimethylglyoxime | (noun) a compound used in analysis as a precipitant for palladium or nickel | - |
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dimetrodon | (noun) carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail | - |
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diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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(verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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(adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
(adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
(adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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(noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
(noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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(noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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dimity | (noun) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains | - |
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dimly | (adverb) in a dim indistinct manner | Synonyms: indistinctly |
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(adverb) in a manner lacking interest or vitality | Synonyms: palely, pallidly |
(adverb) with a dim light | Synonyms: murkily |
dimmed | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dim |
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dimmer | (noun) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination | - |
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dimness | (noun) the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity | Synonyms: subduedness |
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(noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: faintness |
(noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: duskiness |
dimorphic | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphous |
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dimorphism | (noun) (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) | - |
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(noun) (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms | - |
dimorphous | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphic |
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dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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dimple | (noun) a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin | - |
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(noun) any slight depression in a surface | - |
(noun) a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached | Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad |
(verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
(verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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