The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word FADE which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2018.
Dim crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
FADE | 20 % | 4 |
UNLIT | 14 % | 5 |
BLEAR | 14 % | 5 |
FAINT | 12 % | 5 |
PALE | 12 % | 4 |
BLUR | 8 % | 4 |
DARKEN | 5 % | 6 |
MISTY | 3 % | 5 |
HAZY | 3 % | 4 |
OBSCURE | 2 % | 7 |
PEABRAINED | 2 % | 10 |
BLEARY | 2 % | 6 |
SHADOWY | 2 % | 7 |
LOWER | 2 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dim
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- vague
- dumb
- dull
- hopeless
- stupid
- blind
- faint
- slow
- bleak
- slur
- black
- shadowy
Crossword Answer definitions
FADE noun- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
- A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
- A fight.
- A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
- The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
- To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
- To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
- To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
- To cause to fade.
- To bet against.
- Weak; insipid; tasteless.
- Strong; bold; doughty.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result FADE
- Grow dimmer
- Lose color
- Weaken
- Disappear
- Hi-top haircut
- Become indistinct
- Scene ender
- Conclusion to some songs
- Curving golf shot
- Die off toward the end
More clues leading to the result UNLIT
- Dark
- Totally dark
- Like a darkened room
- Needing a match
- Not turned on
- Not illuminated
- In the dark
- Dark, as a room
- Like some pilots in summer
- Shadowy, say
More clues leading to the result BLEAR
- Overshadow
- Teary-eyed
- Get tearily dim
- Vision problem
- Hamper, as vision
- Make fuzzy
- Indistinct
- Cloudiness
- Dim
- Make indistinct
More clues leading to the result FAINT
- Barely audible
- Almost inaudible
- Hard to make out
- Hardly perceptible
- Woozy
- Ready to plotz
- Hard to hear or see
- Dim
- Pass out
- Indistinct
More clues leading to the result PALE
- Color deficient
- Whitish in complexion
- Ashen
- Hardly rosy-cheeked
- Lighten up?
- Like Andy Warhol
- "____ Rider"
- 1985 Clint Eastward western, "____ Rider"
- Deficient in color
- Lacking color
More clues leading to the result BLUR
- Indistinct sight
- "Song 2" band
- Britpop band with the 2015 album "The Magic Whip"
- Britpop band with the album "13"
- Magoo's vision
- Myope's vision
- Speeder's view?
- Very bad snapshot
- Out of focus image
- Become unfocused
More clues leading to the result DARKEN
- Become ominous
- Dim
- Becloud
- Throw shadows on
- Add more shading to
- ___ one's door (come to visit)
- Fill in
- Obscure
- Go from dusk to night
- ___ one's door (stop by)
More clues leading to the result MISTY
- Johnny Mathis hit of 1959
- Mathis classic
- Foggy
- Indistinct
- 1959 Johnny Mathis hit
- ___-eyed (close to tears)
- Tearing up
- 1959 Johnny Mathis classic
- A bit teary-eyed
- Erroll Garner hit
More clues leading to the result HAZY
- Confused
- Unclear
- Smog-covered
- Vague
- Indistinct
- Dim
- Like an unfocused image
- Lacking distinctness
- Vague, as a recollection
- Lacking clarity
More clues leading to the result OBSCURE
- Ambiguous
- Not well-known
- Far from the spotlight
- Not clear
- Little known.
- Cryptic.
- Hidden.
- Ambiguous.
- Dim.
- Recondite
More clues leading to the result PEABRAINED
- What the people who came up with the spellings of 17, 21, 40, and 57 Across apparently were
- Not too bright
- Dim
More clues leading to the result BLEARY
- What tired eyes may be
- Out of focus
- Indistinct
- Clouded, as vision
- Hard to make out
- Like vision dimmed from fatigue
- Unclear, as vision
- ___-eyed (fatigued)
- Thus Don's eyes, Lost Weekend.
- Blurred.
More clues leading to the result SHADOWY
- Chimerical
- Mysterious
- Hard to make out
- Dim
- Like late-afternoon castings
- Indistinct
- Like film noir films
- Indistinct.
- Imaginary
- Umbrageous