Definitions for Dimly
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dimly, indistinctlyadverb

   in a dim indistinct manner

   "we perceived the change only dimly"

2. pallidly, palely, dimlyadverb

   in a manner lacking interest or vitality

   "a palely entertaining show"

3. dimly, murkilyadverb

   with a dim light

   "a dimly lit room"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dimlyadverb

   in a dim manner.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dimlyadverb

   Etymology: from dim.

   1. Not with a quick sight; not with a clear perception.

   Unspeakable! who sitt’st above these heav’ns,
   To us invisible, or dimly seen,
   In these thy lowest works. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v.

   2. Not brightly; not luminously.

   In the beginning of our pumping the air, the match appeared well lighted, though it had almost filled the receiver with its plentiful fumes; but by degrees it burnt more and more dimly. Robert Boyle, Spring of the Air.

   I saw th’ angelick guards from earth ascend,
   Griev’d they must now no longer man attend;
   The beams about their temples dimly shone;
   One would have thought the crime had been their own. Dry.

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1. dimly

   Dimly is an adverb that generally refers to something done, seen or understood faintly, weakly, vaguely or with only a small amount of light, clarity, intensity or strength. This can refer to physical lighting conditions, but also to more abstract concepts like understanding or memory.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dimlyadverb

   in a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dimly in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dimly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Dimly in a Sentence

1. Louis Aragon:

   The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

2. Carlyle:

   It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

4. Herbert Hensley Henson:

   Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection.

5. Edwin P. Whipple:

   An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Dimly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dimly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Dimly
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Dimly
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Dimly