Definitions for DIMS

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DIMS dim

Spelling: [dim]

IPA: /dɪm/

Dims is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in DIMS (dims).

Definitions for DIMS

Idioms

1. take a dim view of, to regard with disapproval, skepticism, or dismay:

adjective

1. not bright; obscure from lack of light or emitted light:
2. not seen clearly or in detail; indistinct:
3. not clear to the mind; vague:
4. not brilliant; dull in luster:
5. not clear or distinct to the senses; faint:
6. not seeing clearly:
7. tending to be unfavorable; not likely to happen, succeed, be favorable, etc.:
8. not understanding clearly.
9. rather stupid; dim-witted.

Verb phrases

1. dim out, (in wartime) to reduce the night illumination of (a city, ship, etc.) to make it less visible from the air or sea, as a protection from enemy aircraft or ships.

verb (used with object)

1. to make dim or dimmer.
2. to switch (the headlights of a vehicle) from the high to the low beam.

verb (used without object)

1. to become or grow dim or dimmer.

Origin of DIMS

before 1000; Middle English, Old English dim(me), cognate with Old Frisian dim, Old Norse dimmr

Examples for DIMS

But Rentoul is in no doubt that his lust for high office is undimmed.

By allowing it to shine upon her, in its undimmed brightness.

For the first time in life I understood the meaning of undimmed, perfect happiness.

Whatever I may have done since then, that day, at least, her happiness was undimmed.

Such fragments as this are as bright, as undimmed, as if we had met this morning.

This evening was the inauguration of a period of undimmed delight.

Each morning the sun arose flashing with white, undimmed fire.

To her he had ever been the lover and the undimmed hero of her girlish dreams.

I want to keep the memory of its cheeriness intact, undimmed.

He has left the most undimmed memory it is possible for man to leave.