undimmed

adjective

un·​dimmed ˌən-ˈdimd How to pronounce undimmed (audio)
: not made dim or dimmer : not dimmed
undimmed enthusiasm
… the bossed silver is undimmed by handling …George Eliot

Examples of undimmed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Despite her injury, Beckham’s sartorial flair was undimmed, with her security team carrying her black Hermès Kelly bag in the background. Alex Kessler, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2024 The award was sitting on an end table next to Nolan, who was dressed in brown slacks, a gray vest, and a navy suit jacket—his Anglo-formality undimmed by decades spent living in Los Angeles. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2023 Revisiting the production a year after its opening, my admiration for the ingenious translation was undimmed (like the original English, the verbose songs reward multiple hearings) and I was transported anew by the raw energy of the production and the performances. A.j. Goldmann, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023 Michael Tilson Thomas, music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, has been battling cancer for more than two years, but his musical passions remain undimmed. Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024 Her impulse to share that enthusiasm with audiences remained undimmed after six decades of broadcasting on BBC TV and radio globally. Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024 Fleming’s fame is undimmed, in large part owing to the twenty-seven James Bond films. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024 Henry Kissinger turned 100 last weekend, warning, with undimmed fervor, of two contemporary threats to an increasingly unstable world: the standoff between America and China, and the growing power of artificial intelligence. Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023 In his mid-forties, though, his undimmed, if frightening, vitality points to a way out of the play’s guilty conundrums—chaos keeps you young. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1723, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of undimmed was in 1723

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“Undimmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undimmed. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.

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