The phrase "a dim world" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an environment or situation that lacks brightness, clarity, or hope.
Example: "As the sun set behind the mountains, the landscape transformed into a dim world, shrouded in shadows and uncertainty."
Alternatives: "a gloomy world" or "a dark world".
Forgetting where I put the key, I sometimes find a door and other times feel stunned and lost, though living in my own body and life, presumably, bewildered and alone as the knight, kidnapped and released to a dim world, who said And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill side.
On the opening, title track, his central chorus line is a breathtaking update of her ruminations – hope and longing swing upward, are briefly lit, and then pad softly down into a dim world of inner brooding.
Instead, after shedding her cloak and turban, Ms. Acogny moves about the stage with a long walking staff, a pilgrim traversing memories as if they were individual pools of light in a dim world.
A symptom or perhaps a cause of this dim world view is the widespread use of prescription drugs like Xanax.
In the Gnostic view, Adam and Eve were right to eat the forbidden apple, and the Fall of Man was in fact a fall into freedom, "a fall", as Gray beautifully puts it, "into the dim world of everyday consciousness".
(With all appreciation for "The Sopranos," only in the dim world of television can that show have created quite such a sensation).
I mean, nowadays, only animated stuff, like "The Simpsons" and "South Park," can get away with that level of anger and bile and that sort of dim world view — but with them it goes down easier because they're cartoons.
I would descend step by slow step into the dim world of the pickling tank and there prepare the new solutions from the great carboys of acids lowered to me on ropes — all from a recipe I shared with nobody and learned from Frank O'Mera before he went off to the bars on Vernor Highway to drink himself to death.
The only way into that dim world is along the PATH rail line that once ran along the very bottom of the pit, through the basement of the Custom House, which was partly smashed by debris that fell when the north tower collapsed.
Creatures of the night, rats rely on their supersensitive whiskers to grope through a dim and dangerous world.
They are a chink of light in a very dim retail world," said Neil Saunders, managing director of retail consultancy Conlumino.
