DIMMED Synonyms

• a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• lacking strength or vigor

• weak and likely to lose consciousness

• indistinctly understood or felt or perceived

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

• filled with shade

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• lacking in substance

• in a softened tone

• restrained in style or quality

• quieted and brought under control

• not brilliant or glaring

• lacking in light; not bright or harsh

• (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time

• become or made dark by lack of light

• lighted by or as if by twilight

• naturally having skin of a dark color

• filled or abounding with fog or mist

• indistinct or hazy in outline

• (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

• dark or gloomy

• in a softened tone

• being or made softer or less loud or clear

• toned down

• being or made softer or less loud or clear

• being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

• total absence of light

• (board games) the darker pieces

• a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• offering little or no hope

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• extremely dark

• harshly ironic or sinister

• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• distributed or sold illicitly

• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

• (of coffee) without cream or sugar

• soiled with dirt or soot

• make or become black

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• unable to see

• people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group

• a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)

• a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

• something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

• unable or unwilling to perceive or understand

• not based on reason or evidence

• render unable to see

• make blind by putting the eyes out

• make dim by comparison or conceal

• a hazy or indistinct representation

• become glassy; lose clear vision

• to make less distinct or clear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make a smudge on; soil by smudging

• make dim or indistinct

• become vague or indistinct

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• hard to pass through because of dense growth

• having high relative density or specific gravity

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• having component parts closely crowded together

• a depression in an otherwise level surface

• (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon

• a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

• tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped

• a brief immersion

• a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

• a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow

• a brief swim in water

• a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms

• immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

• dip into a liquid while eating

• go down momentarily

• stain an object by immersing it in a liquid

• take a small amount from

• switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

• lower briefly

• appear to move downward

• slope downwards

• dip into a liquid

• place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax

• immerse in a disinfectant solution

• plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container

• scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• temporarily incapable of speaking

• lacking the power of human speech

• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

• of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees

• (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex

• lacking in insight or discernment

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

• at a slow tempo

• (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

• showing a time that is earlier than the actual time

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of business) not active or brisk

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato

• a disparaging remark

• a blemish made by dirt

• play smoothly or legato

• speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur

• utter indistinctly

• become vague or indistinct