dimness

Roget category 422

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#422. Dimness

noun

dimness etc. adj. — darkness etc. 421 — paleness etc. (light color) 429.
half light, demi-jour — partial shadow, partial eclipse — shadow of a shade — glimmer, gliming^† — nebulosity — cloud etc. 353 — eclipse.
aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time^† — break of day, daybreak, dawn.
moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade^†, moonshine — starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight — farthing candle.

verb

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.

adjective

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.

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