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| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | darken; obscure |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, blear, blur, cloud, dull, eclipse, fade, fog, haze, lower, muddy, obfuscate, pale, tarnish, turn down, befog |
| Antonyms: | brighten, lighten |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | darkish |
| Synonyms: | blah, bleary, cloudy, dark, dingy, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, faded, faint, flat, fuzzy, gloomy, gray, ill-defined, indistinct, lackluster, mat, monotonous, murky, opaque, overcast, pale, shadowy, tenebrous, unclear, vague, weak, blurred, caliginous, lightless, monotone, muted, obscured, poorly lit, sullied, tarnished, unilluminated |
| Antonyms: | bright, brilliant, clear, distinct, light |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfavorable with regard to opinion |
| Synonyms: | depressing, discouraging, gloomy, skeptical, somber, suspicious, disapproving, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | favorable, good |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not very intelligent |
| Synonyms: | boorish, dense, dim-witted, dull, dumb, oafish, obtuse, slow, stupid, thick*, weak-minded, doltish, slow on uptake |
| Antonyms: | bright, intelligent, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blah |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | bland, boring, dim, dreary, humdrum, monotonous, pedestrian, banausic, monotone, plodding, yawn producing |
| Antonyms: | exciting, spirited, full of life |
| Main Entry: | camouflage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise, cover |
| Synonyms: | beard*, becloud, cloak, conceal, deceive, dim, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, hide, mask, obfuscate, obscure, screen, veil, befog, cover up, throw on makeup |
| Antonyms: | reveal, show, uncover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cloudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy; darkened |
| Synonyms: | confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, foggy, gloomy, heavy, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, obscure, opaque, overcast, somber, sullen, sunless, vaporous, blurred, emulsified, mucky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous |
| Notes: | to the National Weather Service, partly cloudy (what we think of as partly sunny) is 3/8-5/8 cloud cover, mostly cloudy is 6/8-7/8 cloud cover, and cloudy is 8/8 |
| Antonyms: | clear, cloudless |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, blacken, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down*, cloud over, cloud up, make dim |
| Antonyms: | brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | abate, alleviate, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken, KO, anesthetize, etherize, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | dingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soiled, tacky |
| Synonyms: | broken-down, colorless, dark, dilapidated, dim, dirty, drab, dreary, dull, dusky, faded, gloomy, grimy, muddy, murky, obscure, run-down, seedy, shabby, somber, threadbare, tired, bedimmed, darkish, discolored, smirched, sullied, tarnished |
| Antonyms: | bright, clean, immaculate, neat, pure, spotless |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dusky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark-hued; murky |
| Synonyms: | bleak, brunette, cheerless, cloudy, dark, desolate, dim, dismal, dull, funereal, gloomy, joyless, obscure, overcast, sable, shadowy, shady, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, veiled, adusk, bistered, caliginous, crepuscular, dark-complexioned, darkish, lightless, swart, twilit, unilluminated |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light |
| Main Entry: | dwarf |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | minimize |
| Synonyms: | belittle, check, dim, diminish, dominate, hinder, lower, overshadow, predominate, retard, stunt, suppress, detract from, look down upon, make small, micrify, minify, rise above, tower above, tower over |
| Antonyms: | maximize, oversize |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, eve, even, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight, duskiness, early black, eventide, late afternoon |
| Antonyms: | morning |
| Main Entry: | faded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleached; used |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, ashen, bedraggled, dim, dingy, dull, indistinct, lackluster, murky, pale, pallid, run-down, seedy, shabby, shopworn, tacky, tattered, threadbare, tired, wan, wasted, worn, discolored, etiolated, lusterless, not shiny, washed out |
| Antonyms: | colored, brightened, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | muddle, obscure |
| Synonyms: | becloud, bedim, befuddle, bewilder, blind, blur, cloud, confuse, darken, daze, dim, eclipse, mist, muddy, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, addle, steam up |
| Antonyms: | clear up, explain |
| Main Entry: | foggy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy, obscure |
| Synonyms: | cloudy, dark, dim, filmy, fuzzy, gray, indistinct, misty, murky, mushy, nebulous, unclear, vague, vaporous, blurred, ceiling zero, closed in, clouded, fogged in, pea-soupy, smazy, smoggy, socked in, soupy, vapory, zero-zero |
| Antonyms: | clear |
| Main Entry: | ghastly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, dreadful; pale |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrible, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, corpselike, deathlike, horrendous, horrid, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | humdrum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boring, uneventful |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, insipid, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vanilla*, wearisome, banausic, bromidic, garden-variety, monotone, plodding, prosy, toneless, treadmill, unvaried, white-bread |
| Antonyms: | busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, unnoticeable |
| Synonyms: | camouflaged, concealed, dim, faint, hidden, indistinct, insignificant, low-key*, modest, ordinary, plain, quiet, retiring, secretive, shy, subtle, tenuous, unassuming, unobtrusive, low-profile, muted, soft-pedalled, unemphatic, unostentatious |
| Antonyms: | conspicuous, exposed, noticeable, open, unhidden |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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