dimmish

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"[…] there is a great shut-in meadow […] and as the sun goes down it is dimmish in there, but away up against the sky you see the big peaks towering up and shining bright and vivid in the sun […]"
"The airport buildings were in darkness except for a few dimmish lights in the lounge."

Etymology tree English dim Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English dimmish From dim + -ish.

more dimmish (comparative) most dimmish (superlative)

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What does dimmish mean?

Somewhat dim.

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