Not smart or intelligent.
He may be a bit dim, but he's not entirely stupid.
Clipping of diminished.
Dimness.
All about me the Red Weed clambered among the ruins, writhing to get above me in the dim. Night, the Mother of Fear and Mystery, was coming upon me.
To make something less bright.
He dimmed the lights and put on soft music.
A male given name (from Bashkir Дим) .
vocative singular of Ди́ма (Díma)(•colloquial
From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-...
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To become darker.
The lights dimmed briefly when the air conditioning was turned on.
To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
a king among his courtiers,[…] who out to dim the lustre of all his attendants