dim

/dɪm/

意味: 薄暗くする、ぼやける

例文: Fluffin dimmed the room for drama.
　　  フラッフィンが演出用に部屋を暗く。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: dim light(薄暗い光), dim memory(ぼんやりした記憶), dim view(否定的な見方)

定義: 明るさが少ない、薄暗い、はっきりしない、ぼんやりした、という意味です。光や記憶などがはっきりしない状態を表します。

dimは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: switch (a car’s headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
Verb: become dim or lusterless
Verb: make dim or lusterless
Verb: make dim by comparison or conceal
Verb: become vague or indistinct
Adjective: lacking in light; not bright or harsh
Adjective: lacking clarity or distinctness
Adjective: made dim or less bright
Adjective: offering little or no hope; ; ; – J.M.Synge
Adjective: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; – Thackeray

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The room was dim, casting shadows on the walls.(部屋は薄暗く、壁に影を落としていた。)
I love how the dim light makes everything feel cozy.(薄暗い光がすべてを心地よく感じさせるのが好きだ。)
In the dim glow of twilight, secrets began to unfold.(薄明かりの中で、秘密が次第に明らかになり始めた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: the lights dimmed and the curtain rose
Verb: Time had dimmed the silver
Verb: The distinction between the two theories blurred
Adjective: a dim light beside the bed
Adjective: subdued lights and soft music
Adjective: a dim figure in the distance
Adjective: only a faint recollection
Adjective: shadowy figures in the gloom
Adjective: saw a vague outline of a building through the fog
Adjective: a few wispy memories of childhood
Adjective: the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation
Adjective: dimmed headlights
Adjective: we like dimmed lights when we have dinner
Adjective: the future looked black
Adjective: prospects were bleak
Adjective: Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult
Adjective: took a dim view of things
Adjective: so dense he never understands anything I say to him
Adjective: never met anyone quite so dim
Adjective: although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
Adjective: dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
Adjective: he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
Adjective: worked with the slow students

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): black, bleak, blind, blur, dense, dim, dimmed, dip, dull, dumb, faint, obtuse, shadowy, slow, slur, subdued, vague, wispy

Antonyms(反意語): focus, undimmed

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, change intensity, darken, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acetylate, adjust, alkalinize, americanize, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assume, attenuate, barbarize, benight, blind, blur, boil, break, break into, brutalize, calcify, capacitate, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, clinker, collapse, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretize, conjugate, convert, cool, crack, crash, creolize, cure, damage, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, desalinate, destabilize, develop, die, die down, digest, dim, discolor, dissimilate, distill, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, dun, embrown, evaporate, fade, fail, fall, fall for, felt, feminize, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freshen, gel, gelatinize, give way, glaze, go out, gradate, grow, gum, harden, have, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, introject, ionize, isomerize, keratinize, leave, liberalize, lighten, loosen, louden, make, mature, mellow, melt, modernize, modify, mold, move, murk, mutate, narrow, normalize, obsolesce, occult, opacify, overcast, oxidise, oxidize, pall, pass, pine away, plasticize, play out, prim, professionalize, promote, purify, quieten, recede, receive, recombine, reflate, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, reorient, repress, resume, reticulate, rise, roll, salinate, saponify, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shadow, shallow, sharpen, shear, shift, slacken, slow, smoothen, soften, solarize, spot, stabilize, stagnate, steepen, stiffen, stratify, strengthen, sublime, subside, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, swing, synthesize, tighten, transaminate, transform, transpire, turn, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, undulate, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, vulcanize, warm, warm up, wilt

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): obliterate

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: bleakness, blur, denseness, dimness, dullness, dumbness, faintness, obtuseness, slowness, subduedness, vagueness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, education, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

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Exam Level

英検準1級

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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