Dim vs Sullen - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between dim and sullen

is that dim is dimly, indistinctly while sullen is one who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

is dimly, indistinctly.

is to make something less bright.

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Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

* Prior

And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.

Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

* 1593 , , IV. v. 88:

Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;

(Milton)

Sluggish; slow.

* Sir Walter Scott

The larger stream was placid, and even sullen , in its course.

(obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.

(obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

* Dryden

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.

(obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.

* Tillotson

Things are as sullen as we are.

* sulky, morose

* cheerful * content * lighthearted * pleased

(en noun)

(obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

(Piers Plowman)

Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

to have the sullens

* 1593 , , II. i. 139:

And let them die that age and sullens have;