Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.

synoniem: dip.

Roget 422: be dim, grow dim etc. adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet]. render dim etc. adj.; dim, bedim^†, obscure; darken, tone down.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 421: be dark etc. adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate^†; obumbrate^†, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim^†, bedarken^†; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.    extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.    turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: duisteren

Become dim or lusterless.

Make dim or lusterless.

Make dim by comparison or conceal.

synoniem: blind.

Become vague or indistinct.

synoniemen: blur, slur.

Nederlands: bekladden, vervagen

Lacking in light; not bright or harsh:
— A dim light beside the bed.

synoniem: subdued.

Roget 426: opaque, impervious to light; adiaphanous^†; dim etc. 422; turbid, thick, muddy, opacous^†, obfuscated, fuliginous^†, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous^†, muggy^† etc. (turbidity) 426.1. smoky, fumid^†, murky, dirty.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: przyćmiony, mroczny

Lacking clarity or distinctness:
— A dim figure in the distance.

synoniemen: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy.

Roget 447: invisible, imperceptible; undiscernible^†, indiscernible; unapparent, non-apparent; out of sight, not in sight; a perte de vue [Fr.]; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; viewless, sightless; inconspicuous, unconspicuous^†; unseen etc. (see) etc. 441; covert etc. (latent) 526; eclipsed, under an eclipse.    dim etc. (faint) 422; mysterious, dark, obscure, confused; indistinct, indistinguishable; shadowy, indefinite, undefined; ill-defined, ill-marked; blurred, fuzzy, out of focus; misty etc. (opaque) 426; delitescent^†.    hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed) 528.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. (opaque) 426; blear; muggy^†, fuliginous^†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated^†, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming etc. v.. pale etc. (colorless) 429; confused etc. (invisible) 447.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 519: unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable; incognizable^†, inexplicable, inscrutable; inapprehensible^†, incomprehensible; insolvable^†, insoluble; impenetrable.    illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533; indecipherable.    obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; opaque, dense; undiscernible etc. (invisible) 447^†; misty etc. (opaque) 426; hidden etc. 528; latent etc. 526.    indefinite, garbled etc. (indistinct) 447; perplexed etc. (confused) 59; undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical; acroamatic^†, acroamatical^†; metempirical; transcendental; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed.    inconceivable, inconceptible^†; searchless^†; above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's depth; unconceived.    inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.    unpredictable, unforeseeable.    ... meer laten zien

Made dim or less bright:
— The dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation.
— Dimmed headlights.
— We like dimmed lights when we have dinner.

synoniem: dimmed.

Pools: przyciemniony

Offering little or no hope:
— Took a dim view of things.

synoniemen: black, bleak.

Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity:
— Never met anyone quite so dim.

synoniemen: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow.

Pools: tępogłowy, tępy