What does dimly mean?
Dimly means In a dim manner; not clearly..
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/ˈdɪmli/ · adverb
In a dim manner; not clearly..
I began dimly to understand.
It was a miserable evening; outside it was snowing and blowing, and in the squire's parlour the candle burned so dimly that you could scarcely distinguish anything in the room but a clock-case with some Chinese ornaments, a large mirror in an old-fashioned frame, and a silver family tankard.
"The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."
The well-heeled gay yuppies of Bay Village would just as soon banish Drag Queens and hustlers entirely from their lives, only to dimly acknowledge them once a year in flowery paeans to "the gay men and Lesbians who rioted at Stonewall and gave birth to our movement" on Gay Pride Day.
Use dimly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dimly means In a dim manner; not clearly..
Common synonyms include pallidly, palely, indistinctly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I began dimly to understand.
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