dim

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not bright; giving or having little light.

   The room was too dim for me to read comfortably.

2. 2
   adj

   Not clear; hard to see or remember.

   I have only a dim memory of my early childhood.

3. 3
   verb

   To make a light less bright, or to become less bright.

   The lights dimmed and the film began.

4. 4
   adj

   Not very intelligent.

   He's a bit dim, but he means well.

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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