Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation dimension
  • abbreviation diminished
  • abbreviation diminuendo
  • abbreviation diminutive

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  • adverb Abbreviation of diminuendo.

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Examples

  • I even said, "if you don't mind me saying so ..." after I called her dim. '

    From the North... 2010

  • Simply getting to this point is a victory of sorts, but Turkey's prospects for membership remain dim.

    Calendar 2005

  • Simply getting to this point is a victory of sorts, but Turkey's prospects for membership remain dim.

    Calendar 2005

  • Judging from the mishaps they have during the picture, I'd have said these little, yellow dudes were kind of dim.

    'Despicable Me': Oddly Adorable 2010

  • Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts 'content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are ... kind of dim.

    Outrageous - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • The blogosphere has been on fire with response and reaction to the gross generalizations and faulty science that Allen uses to justify her thesis that women are “kind of dim.

    Too Dumb for Words « AAUW Dialog 2008

  • He looked behind him, saw no glimmer, reached inside for the light switch and turned it to "dim."

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts 'content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are ... kind of dim. "

    This Just In From the Washington Post: Women Are Dim 2008

  • Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

    Not a Post Sexism Society « Lean Left 2008

  • Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

    2008 March 03 « Lean Left 2008

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