Crossword clues for dimly
dimly
- One way to be lit
- In an indistinct manner
- In a romantic fashion, lighting-wise
- How some things are lit
- How some rooms are lit
- How some barrooms are lit
- How objects are seen through a mist
- How nightclubs are lit
- How many nightclubs are lit
- How childhood might be remembered
- How childhood may be remembered
- How a romantic dinner might be lit
- 'On the shore -- seen ...'
- Not very intelligently
- How distant stars shine
- How things may be remembered
- How nightclubs are often lit
- How romantic dinners are lit
- How things may be lit or remembered
- Michael gutted to stop doing jobs round the house? Clearly not
- How haunted houses are lit
- Without much clarity
- Without much brightness
- Without full clarity
- Without complete clarity
- Poorly (lit)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dimly \Dim"ly\, adv. In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
Wiktionary
adv. in a dim manner.
WordNet
adv. in a dim indistinct manner; "we perceived the change only dimly" [syn: indistinctly]
in a manner lacking interest or vitality; "a palely entertaining show" [syn: pallidly, palely]
Usage examples of "dimly".
The musty auditorium was a dimly lit torture chamber, filled with the droning dull voice punctuated by the sharp screams of the electrified, the sea of nodding heads abob here and there with painfully leaping figures.
Reaching the rail, he sagged over it and vomited up his supper, dimly aware that Alec was at his side.
Semerket was dimly surprised to see that the glowering Assai was not with him.
On the western shore, which we could dimly see, lay Baku and its oilfields.
The Basha received him in a room so dark that he could but dimly see his face.
The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of antenatal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden.
A couple of seamen at the wheel were keeping the ship sailing fast, with Swan occasionally peering down at one or the other of the dimly lit compasses in the binnacle, his confidence restored.
And he saw something else, dimly through the smoke--a giant black man, looming against the red glare like a black devil stalking out of hell.
This second gallery, dimly lighted like the one below, is a fretwork of wires, steel work, insulators, busses, switches, etc.
Ridiculous rumors whispered across a café table and set adrift in the clouded brain of a Turkish policeman lazily puffing hashish, dimly trying to focus his eyes on the crotch of a serving-boy across the way.
And Stephen dimly envied his friend, even though Caird seemed to have small hope of winning the girl.
They lower the professor, imbedded in his donkey-shaped pizza loaf, to street level in the freight elevator, joined by two bleary-eyed old ladies who squat in a corner to pee, and at the bottom they roll him out into the Sotoportego del Capello, the dimly lit alleyway behind the palazzo.
And then the chiaroscurists succeed in persuading them of the fact that there is a mystery in the day as in the night, and show them how constantly to see truly, is to see dimly.
That stupendous miracle of world-making which is dimly painted in the grand figures employed by the writers of Genesis, and the composers of other cosmogonic legends, is here actually going on before our eyes.
If I told all I should wound chaste ears, and, besides, all the colours of the painter and all the phrases of the poet could not do justice to the delirium of pleasure, the ecstasy, and the license which passed during that night, while two wax lights burnt dimly on the table like candles before the shrine of a saint.