DIM

adj. dark; faint, indistinct

v. make dim; become faint

Dim can mean:A low level of illumination (lighting); lacking in brightness. It may originate from the phrase "Darker than it was this morning."Lack of brightness in the intellectual sense; not smart.In most versions of the BASIC programming language, a keyword that declares an array.In Visual Basic .NET, a method to declare any variable.
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Verb
1. switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
(synonym) dip
(hypernym) change intensity
2. become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown"
(synonym) darken
(hypernym) change intensity
(derivation) dimmer
3. become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"
(hypernym) change
4. make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"
(hypernym) darken
5. make dim by comparison or conceal
(synonym) blind
(hypernym) darken
6. become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
(synonym) blur, slur
(hypernym) weaken
(hyponym) obliterate, efface
Adjective
1. lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
(synonym) subdued
(similar) dark
2. lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
(synonym) faint, shadowy, vague, wispy
(similar) indistinct
3. made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"
(synonym) dimmed
(similar) low-beam(a)
4. offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
(synonym) black, bleak
(similar) hopeless
5. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
(synonym) dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
(similar) stupid

diminuendo, gradual reduction of loudness (Music)

v. dim, make dim; become faint