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DIMLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a dim indistinct manner
Example:
we perceived the change only dimly
Synonyms:
dimly; indistinctly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
dim (lacking clarity or distinctness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
With a dim light
Example:
a dimly lit room
Synonyms:
dimly; murkily
Classified under:
Pertainym:
dim (lacking in light; not bright or harsh)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a manner lacking interest or vitality
Example:
a palely entertaining show
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
The twilight was by this time shading down into darkness; and dimly as they saw each other, they could not have done that without the aid of the fire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The woman rose: she opened a door, through which I dimly saw a passage: soon I heard her stir a fire in an inner room; she presently came back.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The next he knew, he was dimly aware that his tongue was hurting and that he was being jolted along in some kind of a conveyance.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Holmes’s cold, thin fingers closed round my wrist and led me forward down a long hall, until I dimly saw the murky fanlight over the door.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I began dimly to understand.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We shall not have to explore our way into a hall dimly lighted by the expiring embers of a wood fire—nor be obliged to spread our beds on the floor of a room without windows, doors, or furniture.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
As the eyes became more used to the obscurity one learned that there were different degrees of darkness among the trees—that some were dimly visible, while between and among them there were coal-black shadowed patches, like the mouths of caves, from which I shrank in horror as I passed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Holmes,” I cried, “I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Near the horizon the sun was smouldering dimly, almost obscured by formless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
