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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
dim
1. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
• Syn:
dip
• Hypernyms:
change intensity
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. become dim or lusterless
- the lights dimmed and the curtain rose
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. make dim or lusterless
- Time had dimmed the silver
• Hypernyms:
darken
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. become vague or indistinct
- The distinction between the two theories blurred
• Syn:
blur, slur
• Ant:
focus (for: blur)
• See Also:
slur over (for: slur)
• Derivationally related forms:
blur (for: blur)
• Hypernyms:
weaken
• Hyponyms:
obliterate, efface
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
5. make dim by comparison or conceal
• Syn:
blind
• Hypernyms:
darken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
1. lacking in light;
not bright or harsh (Freq. 4)
- a dim light beside the bed
- subdued lights and soft music
• Syn:
subdued
• Similar to:
dark
• Derivationally related forms:
subduedness (for: subdued), dimness
2. lacking clarity or distinctness (Freq. 3)
- 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
• Syn:
faint, shadowy, vague, wispy
• Similar to:
indistinct
• Derivationally related forms:
vagueness (for: vague), faintness (for: faint), dimness
3. made dim or less bright
- the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation
- dimmed headlights
- we like dimmed lights when we have dinner
• Syn:
dimmed
• Ant:
undimmed (for: dimmed)
• Similar to:
low-beam
• Derivationally related forms:
dimness
4. slow to learn or understand;
lacking intellectual acuity
- so dense he never understands anything I say to him
- never met anyone quite so dim
- "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
- dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
- he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
- worked with the slow students
• Syn:
dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
• Similar to:
stupid
• Derivationally related forms:
slowness (for: slow), obtuseness (for: obtuse), dumbness (for: dumb), dullness (for: dull), denseness (for: dense)
5. offering little or no hope
- the future looked black
- prospects were bleak
- "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge
- took a dim view of things
• Syn:
black, bleak
• Similar to:
hopeless
• Derivationally related forms:
bleakness (for: bleak)
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