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The old capital was now like a dim, mysterious, golden isle in a vast, azure sea.

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  1. adjective Lacking in brightness: a dim room.
  2. adjective Emitting only a small amount of light; faint: a dim lightbulb.
  3. adjective Lacking luster; dull and subdued.
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  • The old capital was now like a dim, mysterious, golden isle in a vast, azure sea. —  Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ
  • Her eyes grew dim, her words came with a gasp. —  A Love Episode
  • The remainder was like a dim, appalling nightmare whose impulse remains hidden When he went to his apartment to dress for dinner he found the letter of which Silas Blackburn had spoken to Katherine. —  The Abandoned Room
  • His eyes were dim, and his face was pallid with emotion My God, sir, don't you see where you are drifting?" —  The Battle Ground
  • On and on they went and the shore behind them first grew dim, and then sank out of sight; and the high mountain-tops began to fade away in the sky, and then were seen no more. —  The Story of Siegfried
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shadowy ·  distant ·  vague ·  gloomy ·  dull ·  misty ·  dark

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dim:   dimmer ·  dimming ·  dimmed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English dim, dym, from Anglo-Saxon dim, dimm = OFries. dim = Old Saxon *dim (found only once, altered to thim, in a verse alliterating with th) = Icelandic dimmr, dim (cf. Swedish dimma, a fog, mist, haze, dimmig, foggy), = Old High German timber, Middle High German timber, timmer, dark, diminutive Prob. not connected with Old High German demar, Middle High German demere, twilight (whence G. dämmern (later Danish dæmre), be dim, dämmerung (later Danish dæmring), dimness, twilight), Latin tenebræ for *temebræ, darkness, = Sanskrit tamisrā, dark, night; cf. Sanskrit tamas, gloom, Lithuanian tamsus, dark, tamsa, darkness, Russian temnuii, dim, dark, temno, darkly, Irish teim, diminutive
  2. from Middle English dimmen, make dim, become dim, from Anglo-Saxon *dimmian, in comp. ā-dimmian, for-dimmian, make dim (=Icelandic dimma, become dim), from dim, adjective: see dim, adjective
 

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