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Dim vs Darksome - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between dim and darksome

is that dim is not bright or colorful while darksome is dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

As an adverb dim

is dimly, indistinctly.

As a noun dim

is dimness.

As a verb dim

is to make something less bright.

dim

Translingual

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    darksome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (poetic) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
    • That sometimes from the salvage den,
    And sometimes from the darksome shade ,
    And sometimes staring up at once
    In green and sunny glade'' - - ''Love