Synonyms of dim in English:

dim

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adjective

1‘the stage lighting was extremely dim’

SYNONYMS

faint, weak, feeble, soft, pale, dull, dingy, subdued, muted, flat, lustreless

informal wishy-washy

ANTONYMS

bright

2‘it was a dim, grey day’

SYNONYMS

dark, darkish, sombre, dingy, dismal, gloomy, dusky, murky

grey, overcast, leaden, cloudy, misty, foggy

badly lit, poorly lit, ill-lit, unlit, unilluminated

literary crepuscular, tenebrous

rare Stygian, Cimmerian, caliginous

ANTONYMS

bright

3‘he glimpsed dim shapes through the foliage’

SYNONYMS

indistinct, ill-defined, unclear, vague, shadowy, imperceptible, nebulous, obscured, blurred, blurry, fuzzy, bleary

rare obfuscated

ANTONYMS

distinct

4‘he had only dim memories of his late father’

SYNONYMS

vague, unclear, indistinct, imprecise, imperfect, confused, sketchy, hazy, blurred, shadowy, foggy, obscure, remote

ANTONYMS

clear

5‘I expect you think I'm awfully dim’

SYNONYMS

stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, dense, brainless, mindless, foolish, dull-witted, dull, slow-witted, witless, slow, dunce-like, simple-minded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, imbecile, obtuse, doltish

gullible, naive

informal thick, dumb, dopey, dozy, crazy, cretinous, birdbrained, pea-brained, pig-ignorant, bovine, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, lamebrained, thickheaded, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden, wooden-headed, fat-headed, muttonheaded

British informal daft, barmy, not the full shilling, thick as two short planks

North American vulgar slang dumb-ass

ANTONYMS

intelligent, clever, astute

6‘their prospects for the future looked fairly dim’

SYNONYMS

gloomy, sombre, unpromising, unfavourable, discouraging, disheartening, depressing, dispiriting

ANTONYMS

encouraging