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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class III. Words Relating to Matter |
| Section III. Organic Matter |
| 2. Sensation |
| (6) Light |
| (i) Light in General |
| 422. Dimness. |
| NOUN: | DIMNESS &c. adj.; darkness [See Darkness]; paleness (light color) [See Achromatism]. HALF LIGHT, demi-jour [F.]; partial shadow, partial eclipse; “shadow of a shade” [Æschylus]; “shadows numberless” [Keats]; glimmer, glimmering; nebulosity, nebulousness, obnubilation [rare]; cloud [See Bubble, Cloud]; eclipse. TWILIGHT, aurora, dusk, nightfall, gloaming, gloam [rare], blind man’s holiday, entre chien et loup [F.], inter canem et lupem [L.], shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time [obs.]; break of day, daybreak, dawn. moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine; owl’s-light, starlight, candle-light, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle. |
| VERB: | BE or GROW DIM &c. adj.; gloom; cloud over; flicker, twinkle, glimmer, loom, lower; fade; pale, “pale his uneffectual fire” [Hamlet]. RENDER DIM &c. adj.; dim, bedim, obscure, shade, shadow; encompass with -gloom, - shadow; darken, dark [archaic], cloud, becloud, darkle. |
| ADJECTIVE: | DIM, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, dusky, shorn of its beams; dark [See Darkness]. FAINT, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty (opaque) [See Opacity]; blear; fuliginous; nebulous, nebular, obnubilated [rare], obnubilous [obs.]. LURID, leaden, dun, dirty; overcast, muddy; looming &c. v. TWILIGHT, crepuscular, crepusculous [rare], crepusculine [rare]. pale (colorless) [See Achromatism]; confused (invisible) [See Invisibility]. |
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