| darkness | | |
| n. (state) | 1. dark, darkness | absence of light or illumination. |
| ~ illumination | the degree of visibility of your environment. |
| ~ night | darkness.; "it vanished into the night" |
| ~ lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness, black, blackness | total absence of light.; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" |
| ~ brownout, dimout, blackout | darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft). |
| ~ semidarkness | partial darkness. |
| n. (location) | 2. dark, darkness, shadow | an unilluminated area.; "he moved off into the darkness" |
| ~ scene | the place where some action occurs.; "the police returned to the scene of the crime" |
| n. (state) | 3. dark, darkness, iniquity, wickedness | absence of moral or spiritual values.; "the powers of darkness" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| ~ foulness | disgusting wickedness and immorality.; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. dark, darkness | an unenlightened state.; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" |
| ~ unenlightenment | a lack of understanding. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. darkness | having a dark or somber color. |
| ~ value | relative darkness or lightness of a color.; "I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, medium...and light" |
| n. (attribute) | 6. darkness, duskiness, swarthiness | a swarthy complexion. |
| ~ complexion, skin color, skin colour | the coloring of a person's face. |
| dim | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. dim, dip | switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam. |
| ~ change intensity | increase or decrease in intensity. |
| v. (change) | 2. dim | become dim or lusterless.; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 3. dim | make dim or lusterless.; "Time had dimmed the silver" |
| ~ darken | make dark or darker.; "darken a room" |
| v. (change) | 4. blind, dim | make dim by comparison or conceal. |
| ~ darken | make dark or darker.; "darken a room" |
| v. (change) | 5. blur, dim, slur | become vague or indistinct.; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| ~ efface, obliterate | remove completely from recognition or memory.; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" |
| adj. | 6. dim, subdued | lacking in light; not bright or harsh.; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" |
| ~ dark | devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
| adj. | 7. dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy | lacking clarity or distinctness.; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" |
| ~ indistinct | not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand.; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do" |
| adj. | 8. dim, dimmed | made dim or less bright.; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner" |
| ~ low-beam | used of headlights.; "following with low-beam headlights" |
| adj. | 9. black, bleak, dim | offering little or no hope.; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things" |
| ~ hopeless | without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success.; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" |
| adj. | 10. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow | slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" |
| ~ stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. |
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