[
US
/ˈdɪmɫi/
]
[ UK /dˈɪmli/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪmli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with a dim light
a dimly lit room -
in a manner lacking interest or vitality
a palely entertaining show -
in a dim indistinct manner
we perceived the change only dimly
How To Use dimly In A Sentence
- Walk into a dimly-lit gallery and approach the welded steel device fitted with a battery of fan-shaped movie screens.
- He dragged himself up the walk, dimly noticing that the front window was covered with condensation.
- The sounds of the phoney election war are already dimly audible. Times, Sunday Times
- You go into a dimly lit room with hip-hop and R&B music and you punch bags. The Sun
- A nightlight glowed dimly in the corner of the children's bedroom.
- In Mortal Coils, an interaction of oneiromancy and mediumism was embodied in multiple projections among slowly twisting ropes, as if something were dimly viewed while transpiring underwater or in a netherworld.
- The old image of snooker is of seedy, smoky, dimly-lit halls filled with sallow-complexioned men, pint in one hand, cigarette in the other as they wait their turn at the table.
- The interior is a delight, a beamed, strawed, trestle-tabled, dimly lit farmhouse attended to by waiters in sashed smocks.
- Babies are weak and vulnerable in the presence of huge shapes that they can only dimly perceive.
- dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness