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Definition of Dimly
1. Adverb. In a dim indistinct manner. "We perceived the change only dimly"
2. Adverb. In a manner lacking interest or vitality. "A palely entertaining show"
3. Adverb. With a dim light. "A dimly lit room"
Definition of Dimly
1. adv. In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
Definition of Dimly
1. Adverb. in a dim manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dimly
1. in a dim manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dimly
Literary usage of Dimly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... the other dimpled Hand back on the edge of the table brightened dimly, one
moment; went out again, the next; ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"logical optics had not yet entered upon the high career to which it has since
been brought, and what in 1826 was only dimly understood, was in 1856 by ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... most with the strange and frightful appara- opportunity, by any means, lost
by Mr soph'y, and dimly lighted by a lamp Klingemann ; only he trusts more, ..."
4. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... novel mode of franking—Roulette-table—A supper in Orcus—Pockets to let—dimly
lighted streets—Some things not so bad as they are represented. ..."
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