Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Dimness

Nouns
  • dimness etc. adj.
  • darkness etc. Darkness
  • paleness etc. (light color) [Absence of color.] Achromatism. half light, demi-jour
  • partial shadow, partial eclipse
  • shadow of a shade
  • glimmer, gliming
  • nebulosity
  • cloud etc. [Mixture of air and water.] Bubble [Cloud.]
  • eclipse. aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time
  • break of day, daybreak, dawn. moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine
  • starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight
  • farthing candle.
Verbs
  • be dim, grow dim etc. adj.
  • flicker, twinkle, glimmer
  • loom, lower
  • fade
  • pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet]. render dim etc. adj.
  • dim, bedim, obscure
  • darken, tone down.
Adjectives
  • dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark Darkness. faint, shadowed forth
  • glassy
  • cloudy
  • misty etc. (opaque) Opacity
  • blear
  • muggy, fuliginous
  • nebulous, nebular
  • obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty
  • looming etc. v.. pale etc. (colorless) [Absence of color.] Achromatism
  • confused etc. (invisible) Invisibility.