DIMLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dimly mean? 

• DIMLY (adverb)
  The adverb DIMLY has 3 senses:

1. in a dim indistinct manner

2. in a manner lacking interest or vitality

3. with a dim light

  Familiarity information: DIMLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIMLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a dim indistinct manner

Synonyms:

dimly; indistinctly

Context example:

we perceived the change only dimly

Pertainym:

dim (lacking clarity or distinctness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a manner lacking interest or vitality

Synonyms:

dimly; palely; pallidly

Context example:

a palely entertaining show

Sense 3

Meaning:

With a dim light

Synonyms:

dimly; murkily

Context example:

a dimly lit room

Pertainym:

dim (lacking in light; not bright or harsh)

 Context examples 

A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun danced above him in the sky, the huge walls reeled and swung, and still he heard and saw dimly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The room was, therefore, dimly dark.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a starlight night, and I could see the bulk of him dimly as he moved about.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was a straight passage, dimly lighted, which led from the room in which I had been working, and was the only exit from it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was only dimly aware that it was raining.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloud-bank.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, hardly daring to look and yet unable to turn away my eyes, I saw a figure dimly outlined in the corner upon which the stair opened.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Barnard’s Star, the planet’s host star, is a red dwarf, a cool, low-mass star, which only dimly illuminates this newly-discovered world.

(Super-Earth Discovered Around Barnard's Star, ESO)

In just a few thousand years they will have dissipated, and all that will be left to see is the dimly glowing white dwarf.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)