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. Richard Whately:

   In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

2. 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.

3. Albert Einstein:

   The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

4. 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.

5. Thomas Carlyle:

   Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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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