英语词汇“dim”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	dim
释义	dim I. \ˈdim\ adjective (dimmer ; dimmest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German timber dark, Old Norse dimmr dark, gloomy, Middle Irish dem black, dark, Greek themerōpis grave-looking, Sanskrit dhamati he blows 1. a. : not bright : emitting a limited or insufficient amount of light < the moon is dim on a cloudy night > b. : of a dull or subdued shade or tint : lacking brightness or clarity < the iris was of a peculiar soft or dim and tender red — W.H.Hudson †1922 > c. : lacking pronounced, clear-cut, or vigorous quality or character < dim affairs with women in which he flirts in a scared way — Anthony West > d. slang : boring, dull < a pretty dim celebration > 2. a. : seen indistinctly : without clear outlines or details : scarcely visible < the dim distances of his own Mississippi river country — Sherwood Anderson > b. : indistinctly or faintly perceived by the senses : of low volume or strength < the dim strumming of a guitar > < strawberry leaves sent up their sweet dim smell — Edith Sitwell > c. : perceived by the mind indistinctly or with difficulty < a dim awareness of his environment > : indistinctly known or remembered < the dim centuries of the later empire — Roger Fry > : sensed or perceived weakly in an emotional or intuitional manner < led … early man to a dim feeling for symbolism — Edward Sapir > : of a hazy or indefinite nature < claimed some dim relationship with Houdini — R.G.G.Price > d. : having little prospect of favorable result or outcome < a dim future > : unlikely to be fulfilled or realized < the dim expectancy that he might return — Ann Ryan > e. : characterized by an unfavorable, skeptical, pessimistic, disapproving, or unenthusiastic attitude — usually used in the phrase take a dim view of < he takes a dim view of human nature > < the villagers take a dim view of people who try to impress them > 3. a. : not perceiving clearly and distinctly with one of the senses (as sight) < eyes grown dim with age > b. : dull and weak in understanding or comprehension < big and overdeveloped and dim in her wits — Louis Bromfield > Synonyms: see dark II. verb (dimmed ; dimmed ; dimming ; dims) Etymology: Middle English dimmen, from dim, adjective *transitive verb* 1. : to make dim < dim the theater lights > < the years could not dim his early love > < the incident dimmed the prospects for peace > 2. : to reduce the light from (headlights) by switching to the low beam *intransitive verb* : to become dim < her fame and beauty dimmed rapidly > < the way the lights dim in a farmhouse during a storm — John Cheever > Synonyms: see obscure III. noun (-s) 1. archaic : dimness, dusk 2. a. : parking light < put his lights on the dim and pulled into the curb — Erle Stanley Gardner > b. : low beam IV. abbreviation 1. dimension 2. [Latin dimidium] half 3. diminished 4. diminuendo 5. diminutive
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