Adjective: dim
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | dimmer |
| Superlative | dimmest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.
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that sustaining Love / Which, through the web of being blindly wove / By man and beast and earth and air and sea, / Burns bright or dim [1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:]
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He may be a bit dim, but he's not entirely stupid.
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His vision grew dimmer as he aged.
Adjectives inflected like dim
dim,
mim,
bum,
rum,
frum,
grum,
grim,
glam,
glum,
clam,
trim,
prim,
slim,
Etymology
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”).