"the future looked black" "prospects were bleak" "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M. "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation" "dimmed headlights" "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"įaint, dull, obtuse, shadowy, dense, slow, vague, dumb, dimmed, wispy, black, bleak, subdued Weak, shady, dull, wraithlike, dumb, shadowed, dense, faint-hearted, timid, undefined, swooning, dimmed, black, umbrageous, vague, fainthearted, subdued, feeble, faint, lightheaded, obscure, wispy, obtuse, light, shadowy, light-headed, wisplike, bleak, slow "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" On this page youll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dimensional, such as: spatial, geographical, geometric, and structural. "a dim light beside the bed" "subdued lights and soft music"ĭull, low-key, hushed, dumb, dense, muted, soft, dimmed, black, quiet, vague, subdued, low-keyed, faint, wispy, obtuse, shadowy, bleak, slowĭim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy adjective relating to space and size synonyms for dimensional Compare Synonyms spatial geographical geometric structural Rogets 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group. Princeton's WordNet Rate these antonyms: 2.9 / 9 votes See MYSTERIOUS OBSCURE.īright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, whiteīlack, dark, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthy Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil as, a dark deed. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy as, a murky den a murky sky. verb (used with object), dimmed, dimming. not seen clearly or in detail indistinct: a dim object in the distance. not bright obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room a dim flashlight. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. See synonyms for dim on adjective, dimmer, dimmest. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. not bright obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room a dim flashlight. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless the night is dark, tho the stars shine. Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light.
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