dim

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 dĭm

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Dimness. archaic,uncountable
    — All about me the Red Weed clambered among the ruins, writhing to get above me in the dim. Night, the Mother of Fear and Mystery, was coming upon me.
动词 v.
  1. To make something less bright. transitive
    — He dimmed the lights and put on soft music.
  2. To become darker. intransitive
    — The lights dimmed briefly when the air conditioning was turned on.
  3. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
    — a king among his courtiers,[…] who out to dim the lustre of all his attendants
  4. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
    — And with our Sun-bright armour as we march, Weel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies That ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes.
  5. To diminish, dull, or curtail. figuratively
    — All these setbacks had started to dim the hopes of the students.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not bright or colorful.
    — The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.
  2. Clipping of diminished. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,not-comparable
  3. Not smart or intelligent. colloquial
    — He may be a bit dim, but he's not entirely stupid.
  4. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
    — His vision grew dimmer as he aged.
  5. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.

词形变化

dimmer comparative dimmest superlative dims present,singular,third-person dimming participle,present dimmed participle,past dimmed past

词汇关系

近义词
dusk bland colourless dim dingy dull faint lackluster leaden muddy sad sober uncolorful unholiday wan
反义词
bright colored multicolored
下位词
achromatic dark colour beige drab dun sallow flat matt matte
衍生词
dim and distant dimbo dim bulb dim-headed dim-lit dimly dimmish dimmity dimmy dim-sighted dimsome dimwit dim-witted → dim-wittedness nice-but-dim autodimming bedim dimmable dimmer dim out fordim nondimmable undimmable undimmed undimming
相关词
dark pallid cheerless dim mak dim sum

词源

From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur (“dark”), Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).
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