Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dim; dimming.
  • In a dim or obscure manner; with dull or imperfect vision or a faint light; not brightly or clearly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb in a dim manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with a dim light
  • adverb in a dim indistinct manner
  • adverb in a manner lacking interest or vitality

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Examples

  • All the evidence gleaned, of course, in dimly lit caves, from the few, remaining, extant sources available to them.

    Matthew Yglesias » Nomination Follies 2010

  • Years ago, in dimly remembered days as a starving bard, the King had bitten me and passed the curse of Crasts.

    An Heroic Tale in an Enormous Tomb « A Fly in Amber 2008

  • Throw in the lukewarm defense of Rumsfeld by a mere handful of the Republican majority, the substitution of "support the troops" for any talk of "support the president" when referring to the war, the lack of pundits touting his "accomplishments," and I think the handwriting, no matter how dimly, is starting to appear on the wall.

    May 2004 2004

  • Yet VIA remains a name dimly remembered in Europe and the US - if it's even remembered at all

    bit-tech.net Feed 2010

  • Half-forgotten pasts were recalled dimly around flickering Dark Age watch fires,

    Ten Millennia Ago a Seed Was Planted 2009

  • Countless old odors called the dimly lit cargo bay of the Rocinante their home.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • Countless old odors called the dimly lit cargo bay of the Rocinante their home.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • Countless old odors called the dimly lit cargo bay of the Rocinante their home.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • Countless old odors called the dimly lit cargo bay of the Rocinante their home.

    Reap the Whirlwind David Mack 2007

  • I recall dimly, I must admit the end of Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac where the protagonist writes out a telegram to send which says "Coming home," then she changes her mind, crosses it out and writes "Returning."

    Houston K. A. Laity 2005

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