DIM, DIMLY, DIMMED, DIMNESS
ADJECTIVES
► CALIGINOUS misty, dim, murky; obscure, dark → 1548 arch.
► CREPUSCULAR resembling twilight; dim, indistinct → 1668
► CREPUSCULINE pert. to twilight; illuminated by twilight; dim, dusky → 1550
► CREPUSCULOUS of the nature of twilight; in a state between light and darkness; dim, glimmering, dusky, indistinct, obscure → 1646
► DIM-DISCOVERED dimly or faintly seen → 1750
► DIMPSY dark, dim → 1892 Eng. dial.
► DUMB lacking brightness; dull, dim → 1720 obs.
► NEBULATED clouded, dimmed → 1874
► OBLITE dim, as if partly blotted out; indistinct, obscure → 1650 obs.
► SOURD adj. dim or dull → 1659 obs.
► TWILIGHT lighted as by twilight; dim, obscure, shadowy → 1645
ADVERBS
► AT HALF LIGHTS indistinctly, vaguely, dimly → 1625
► BY HALF LIGHTS indistinctly, vaguely, dimly → a1711
NOUNS
► FUSCITY darkness, dimness → 1727 obs.
VERBS
► BEMIST to becloud, to dim → 1598
► BESMIRCH to sully, to dim the lustre of → 1602
► DAMMER to make dim or dark → 1610 obs.
► DARK 1. to obscure, to cloud, to dim, to sully → c1374 arch.
2. to cloud, to dim, to obscure, to hide something luminous → c1380 obs.
► DUN to become dark or dim; to become dull in colour to lose colour, to fade → a1400 obs.
► EFISC to obfuscate, to dim → 1656 obs.
► OBNUBILATE to darken, dim, cover, or hide with or as with a cloud; to overcloud; to obscure → 1583
► OPACATE to render opaque, to dim → 1660
► PALL 1. to become pale or dim → 1412-20 obs.
2. to make pale, to dim → 1533 obs.
► THESTER to become dark, to grow dim; to make dark → a900 obs.
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