Synonyms of the word

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

bleak

• adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
• adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
• adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
• n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

blind

• adj. (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
• adj. (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
• adj. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
• adj. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
• adj. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end.
• adj. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
• adj. smallest or slightest in phrases such as.
• adj. (not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
• adj. (not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating…
• adj. Unintelligible or illegible.
• adj. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
• n. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can…
• n. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name…
• n. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
• n. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
• n. (military) A blindage.
• n. A halting place.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
• n. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
• n. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
• n. (uncountable) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
• v. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
• v. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
• v. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
• v. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the…
• adv. Without seeing; unseeingly.
• adv. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

blur

• v. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
• v. To smear, stain or smudge.
• v. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
• v. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
• n. A smear, smudge or blot.
• n. Something that appears hazy or indistinct.
• n. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
• adj. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

darken

• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
• v. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
• v. (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
• v. (transitive) To blind, impair eyesight.
• v. (intransitive) To be blinded, loose clear vision.
• v. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
• v. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

dense

• adj. Having relatively high density.
• adj. Compact; crowded together.
• adj. Thick; difficult to penetrate.
• adj. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
• adj. Obscure, or difficult to understand.
• adj. (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia…
• adj. (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

dimmed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dim.

dip

• n. A lower section of a road or geological feature.
• n. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
• n. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
• n. A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
• n. A dip stick.
• n. A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A pickpocket.
• n. A sauce for dipping.
• n. (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
• n. (archaic) A dipped candle.
• n. (dance) a move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which…
• n. A gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms…
• n. In the turpentine industry, the viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin…
• n. (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting…
• v. (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
• v. (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
• v. (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
• v. (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
• v. (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order…
• v. (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
• v. (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
• v. To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents…
• v. To immerse for baptism.
• v. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
• v. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
• v. (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a…
• v. (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance…
• v. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
• v. (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
• v. (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
• v. (dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower…
• v. To slightly and swiftly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position,…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave.
• n. A foolish person.
• n. (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

dumb

• adj. (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
• adj. (dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, especially of a person) extremely stupid.
• adj. (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
• adj. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
• v. (dated) To silence.
• v. (transitive) To make stupid.
• v. (transitive) To represent as stupid.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.

faint

• adj. (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness.
• adj. Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected.
• adj. hardly perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp.
• adj. Performed, done, or acted, weakly; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy.
• adj. Slight; minimal.
• n. The act of fainting, syncope.
• n. (rare) The state of one who has fainted; a swoon.
• v. (intransitive) To lose consciousness. Caused by a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as…
• v. To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
• v. To decay; to disappear; to vanish.

hopeless

• adj. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
• adj. Without talent, not skilled.

indistinct

• adj. (of an image etc) not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim.
• adj. (of a thought, idea etc) hazy or vague.
• adj. (of speech) difficult to understand.

obtuse

• adj. (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp.
• adj. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
• adj. Indirect or circuitous.
• adj. Of sound: deadened or muffled.
• adj. (geometry) Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
• adj. (geometry) Of a triangle: with one obtuse angle.

shadowy

• adj. In shadow; darkened by shadows.
• adj. (of character) Dark, obscure.

slow

• adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
• adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
• adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
• adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
• adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
• adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
• adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
• v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
• v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
• n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
• n. (music) A slow song.
• adv. Slowly.

slur

• n. An insult or slight.
• n. (music) A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
• n. (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused…
• n. (obsolete) A trick or deception.
• n. In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
• v. To insult or slight.
• v. To run together; to articulate poorly.
• v. (music) To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
• v. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
• v. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
• v. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
• v. (printing, dated) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

stupid

• adj. Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
• adj. To the point of stupor.
• adj. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
• adj. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• adj. (slang) damn, annoying, darn.
• adv. (slang, dated) Extremely.
• n. A stupid person; a fool.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) The state or condition of being stupid.

subdued

• adj. Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
• adj. Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of subdue.

vague

• adj. Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
• adj. Not having a precise meaning.
• adj. Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
• adj. Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
• adj. Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
• adj. Lacking expression; vacant.
• adj. Not sharply outlined; hazy.
• adj. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
• n. (obsolete) A wandering; a vagary.
• n. An indefinite expanse.
• v. To wander; to roam; to stray.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

wispy

• adj. Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.