Difference between Dim and Blind

What is the difference between Dim and Blind?

Dim as an adjective is not bright or colorful while Blind as an adjective is of a person or animal, unable to see.

Dim

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not bright or colorful not smart or intelligent indistinct, hazy or unclear disapproving, unfavorable, rarely used outside the phrase "take a dim view of".

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make something less bright. To become darker.

Example sentence: Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

Blind

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make temporarily or permanently blind.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Without seeing; unseeingly.In three card brag, without looking at the cards dealt.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.An 1800s baseball term meaning no score.A forced bet.A player who is or was forced to make a bet.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a person or animal, unable to see.Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.Of a place, having little or no visibility; as, a blind corner.Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.Without opening; as, a blind wall.smallest or slightest in phrases such as

Example sentence: The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

We hope you now know whether to use Dim or Blind in your sentence.

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