dim
dimmed
subincandescent
bright
undimmed
outshine
coarsen
outglow
gleam
illuminable
pale
darken
twilight
lighten
dodge
dense
blunt
nitency
tinsel
cloud
dimmable
unthicken
illumine
brighten up
transluce
extenuate
cool
overlighten
chill
bleach
dark
unlightened
antidarkening
rebate
disintensify
semitranslucent
unbend
relax
soften up
glimmer
pup
unshade
coruscate
lambent
blear
dedramatize
deaden
shine
fog
reflect
bedarken
desimplify
shimmer
photobleach
opacification
alighten
blur
cool down
unlight
unfog
lighten up
opaque
translucent
depotentize
well
semilucent
ardent
sparkly
ruin
blaze up
shed light on
sparkle
deflexibilize
dull
detackify
fluff
alloy
mat
sickly
reverberate
shining
visualise
shiny
desaturate
flat
bedim
matte
burnished
matted
matt
catch the light
deglamorize
lustrous
sparkleless
dim
dimmed
subincandescent
bright
undimmed
illuminable
dense
dimmable
dark
unlightened
antidarkening
semitranslucent
lambent
opaque
translucent
semilucent
ardent
sparkly
mat
sickly
shining
shiny
flat
matte
burnished
matted
matt
lustrous
sparkleless
nitency
pup
opacification
fluff
dim
outshine
coarsen
outglow
gleam
pale
darken
twilight
lighten
dodge
blunt
tinsel
cloud
unthicken
illumine
brighten up
transluce
extenuate
cool
overlighten
chill
bleach
rebate
disintensify
unbend
relax
soften up
glimmer
unshade
coruscate
blear
dedramatize
deaden
shine
fog
reflect
bedarken
desimplify
shimmer
photobleach
alighten
blur
cool down
unlight
unfog
lighten up
depotentize
well
ruin
blaze up
shed light on
sparkle
deflexibilize
dull
detackify
alloy
reverberate
visualise
desaturate
bedim
catch the light
deglamorize
adj
adj
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- having strong or striking color
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- having lots of light either natural or artificial
- splendid
- clear and sharp and ringing
- characterized by happiness or gladness
- likely to turn out well in the future
adv
verb
- To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
- To turn pale; to lose colour.
- To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
- To become insignificant.
noun
- Limits, bounds (especially before of).
- A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
- A cheese scoop.
- The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
- A wooden stake; a picket.
adj
verb
- To make dark or darker by reducing light.
- To become gloomy, darker in mood.
- To render gloomy, darker in mood.
- To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
- To become dark or darker (having less light).
- To make dark or darker in colour.
- To blind, impair the eyesight.
- To become dark or darker in colour.
- To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
- To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
- To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
verb
noun
- Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
adj
verb
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
verb
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
adj
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
- Having relatively high density.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
noun
verb
- To make less acute or perceptive.
- To make gloomy or sullen.
- To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- To make obscure.
- To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
noun
- Crystal methamphetamine.
- A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
verb
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To become bright; to light up.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb
- To make cooler, less warm.
- To lose heat, to get colder.
- To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To kill.
- To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
noun
- A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
- A calm temperament.
- The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
adj
- Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
- Calmly audacious.
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Very interesting or exciting.
- (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
- Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
- (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating.
- (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef.
- Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
- Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
verb
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- To become hard by rapid cooling.
- To smoke marijuana.
- To discourage, depress.
- To become cold.
- To relax; to lie back.
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
adj
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- Moderately cold or chilly.
- Okay, not a problem.
- Unwelcoming; not cordial.
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
noun
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
adj
- Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- Off the air; not transmitting.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
- Having racing capability not widely known.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Extinguished.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
verb
- To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
- To make dark, darken; to obscure.
- To grow or become dark, darken.
noun
verb
- To diminish or lessen something
- To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
- To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
- To abate; to withdraw.
- Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
noun
- An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
- The return of part of an amount already paid.
- The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
- A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
noun
- A kind of small spotlight.
- A young, inexperienced person.
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
- A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age.
- A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
- An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
verb
verb
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be shiny, as if wet
- be distinguished or eminent
- be clear and obvious
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- make (a surface) shine
noun
verb
- To make dim or obscure.
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- Moss.
verb
adj
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- Obtuse, stupid.
- Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
noun
verb
verb
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
intj
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
adj
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adv
verb
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
noun
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- The act of ruining something.
- Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
verb
- To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
- To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
- To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
- To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
- To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
noun
verb
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
adj
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not clear, muffled.
adj
verb
noun
- a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
- sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
- a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
- a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
adj
- Shedding a relatively small amount of light; (of light) not very bright.
- Associated with poor moral or mental well-being.
- Appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; giving the appearance of illness.
- Characterized by poor or unhealthy growth.
- Overly sweet.
- Not in good health; (somewhat) sick.
- Tending to produce nausea.
- Lacking intensity or vigour.
- Frequently ill or in poor health.
verb
adv
verb
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
adj
verb
- To lessen the saturation of (a colour).
- To decrease in saturation.
- To undergo a decrease in the oxygen saturation level in the hemoglobin.
- To convert (a saturated compound) to an unsaturated one.
- To cause to become less saturated or unsaturated.
- Of the oxygen saturation level in one's hemoglobin: to decrease, to drop.
adj
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having lost effervescence
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- horizontally level
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
- commercially inactive
adj
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
adv
noun
- a level tract of land
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
adj
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