What does Dimly mean?
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Princeton's WordNet
dimly, indistinctlyadverb
in a dim indistinct manner
"we perceived the change only dimly"
pallidly, palely, dimlyadverb
in a manner lacking interest or vitality
"a palely entertaining show"
dimly, murkilyadverb
with a dim light
"a dimly lit room"
Wiktionary
dimlyadverb
in a dim manner.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Dimlyadverb
Etymology: from dim.
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.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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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 Dictionary
Dimlyadverb
in a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Dimly in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Dimly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Dimly in a Sentence
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.
Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry:
I braced myself, went in. The room was dimly lit, unfamiliar - I ’d been inside it only once in my life. I moved ahead uncertainly, and there she was. I stood, frozen, staring. I stared and stared. It was difficult, but I kept on, thinking how I ’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end. Years of lamenting that lack of proof, postponing my grief for want of proof. Now I thought : Proof. Careful what Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry wish for.
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.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
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.
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