[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dim \dim\, a. compar. dimmer; superl. dimmest. as. dim;
   akin to ofries. dim, icel. dimmr: cf. mhg. timmer, timber; of
   uncertain origin.
   1. not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness;
      obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure;
      indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
      1913 webster

            the dim magnificence of poetry.       --whewell.
      1913 webster

            how is the gold become dim           --lam. iv. 1.
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            i never saw
            the heavens so dim by day.            --shak.
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            three sleepless nights i passed in sounding on,
            through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   2. of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of
      apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
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            mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. --job
                                                  xvii. 7.
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            the understanding is dim.             --rogers.
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   note: obvious compounds: dim-eyed; dim-sighted, etc.

   syn: obscure; dusky; dark; mysterious; imperfect; dull;
        sullied; tarnished.
        1913 webster
see also:
dimmer dimmest 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dim \dim\, v. i.
   to grow dim. --j. c. shairp.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dim \dim\, v. t. imp.  p. p. dimmed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   dimming.
   1. to render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or
      distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull;
      to obscure; to eclipse.
      1913 webster

            a king among his courtiers, who dims all his
            attendants.                           --dryden.
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            now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways.
                                                  --cowper.
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   2. to deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing
      clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to
      darken the senses or understanding of.
      1913 webster

            her starry eyes were dimmed with streaming tears.
                                                  --c. pitt.
      1913 webster
see also:
dimmed dimming 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dim
     adj 1: lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside
            the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" syn: subdued
     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" syn: faint,
         shadowy, vague, wispy
     3: made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a
        hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like
        dimmed lights when we have dinner" syn: dimmed ant: undimmed
     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" syn: black, bleak
     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"
        syn: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
     v 1: switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam
          syn: dip
     2: become or make darker; "the screen darkend"; "he darkened
        the colors by adding brown" syn: darken ant: brighten
     3: become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain
        rose"
     4: make dim or lusterless; "time had dimmed the silver"
     5: make dim by comparison or conceal syn: blind
     6: become vague or indistinct; "the distinction between the two
        theories blurred" syn: blur, slur ant: focus
     also: dimming, dimmed, dimmest, dimmer
see also:
subdued faint shadowy vague wispy dimmed 
undimmed black bleak dense dull 
dumb obtuse slow dip darken 
brighten blind blur slur focus 
dimming dimmest dimmer 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

252 moby thesaurus words for "dim":
   achromatic, achromatize, achromic, amorphous, anemic, ashen, ashy,
   banausic, bandage, barely audible, becloud, bedarken, bedazzle,
   bedim, befog, begloom, benight, black, black out, blacken, blah,
   blanch, bleach, blear, blear-eyed, bleared, bleary, bleary-eyed,
   bled white, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, block the light,
   bloodless, blot out, blunt, blunt-witted, blur, blurred, blurry,
   brown, cadaverous, caliginous, cast a shadow, chloranemic,
   clear as mud, cloud, cloud over, cloudy, colorless, confused, dark,
   dark-colored, darken, darken over, darkish, darkle, darksome, daze,
   dazzle, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, decolor, decolorize,
   decrescendo, defocus, deprive of sight, dim out, dim-eyed,
   dim-sighted, dim-witted, dimmed, dimmish, dimpsy, dingy, discolor,
   discolored, distant, dopey, drain, drain of color, dreary, dull,
   dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-sighted, dull-witted,
   dusk, dusky, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, etiolate,
   etiolated, excecate, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous,
   fade, faded, faint, faint-voiced, fallow, fat-witted, feeble,
   feeble-eyed, film, filmy, filmy-eyed, flat, fog, foggy, fume,
   fuzzy, gentle, ghastly, glare, gloam, gloom, gloomy, gouge,
   gravel-blind, gray, gross-headed, grow dark, grow dim, haggard,
   half-blind, half-heard, half-seen, half-visible, haze, hazy, heavy,
   hebetudinous, hoodwink, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, ill-defined,
   inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct,
   indistinguishable, lackluster, leaden, livid, lose resolution, low,
   low-profile, lower, lurid, lusterless, make blind, mat, mealy,
   merely glimpsed, mist, misty, mole-eyed, monotone, monotonous,
   muddy, murk, murksome, murky, murmured, muted, nebulous, neutral,
   obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obtuse, obumbrate, occult,
   occultate, opaque, out of focus, overcast, overcloud, overshadow,
   pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedestrian,
   peroxide, pianissimo, piano, poky, purblind, sallow, sand-blind,
   scarcely heard, semidark, semivisible, shade, shadow, shadowy,
   shapeless, sickly, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, snow-blind, soft,
   soft-sounding, soft-voiced, soften, somber, stodgy, strike blind,
   subaudible, subdued, subfusc, tallow-faced, tarnish, tenebrous,
   thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted,
   thickskulled, tone down, toneless, transcendent, uncertain,
   unclear, uncolored, undefined, undetermined, unilluminated,
   unplain, unrecognizable, vague, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen,
   weak, weak-eyed, weak-voiced, whey-faced, whispered, white, whiten,
   wooden

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

dim
     
        dim statement
     
     
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dim statement 

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