dimly
/ˈdɪmli
/adverb
1With a faint light; not brightly: a single lamp glowed dimly in the gloom a dimly lit corridor...
- The testing was carried out in a dimly illuminated room.
- The lamp on Albert's desk glowed golden orange, dimly illuminating the dusty, disorderly office.
- The light shone dimly off the white wall directly across the sparse, small room.
1.1In a faint or indistinct way; not clearly: the desert is dimly visible in the light of the moon the dimly outlined figure of a young boy...
- The Schuylkill River appears in the foreground, with a domed building dimly silhouetted on the horizon of the distant plateau.
- The building can be dimly discerned in a photograph of 1880.
- He also developed new ways of putting on paint to produce the effect of features dimly seen through steam and driving rain.
1.2In a way that is not clearly perceived or recalled: we became dimly aware of voices I can only dimly remember the 1960s...
- My favorite part was always the opening for two pianos, drum kit, and (I dimly recall) bass.
- In the end, I felt a little cheated, because I was dimly aware of the wasted potential.
- But that time will be long ahead, when building materials have properties that we can only dimly imagine.
2Used to express disapproval: he would look dimly upon any attempt to change her team the organizers view such enterprise very dimly...
- Germany's justification - that of self-defence - was regarded dimly by the French government.
- It's easy, even a mild pleasure, to look dimly upon the essay's patrician airs and haughty notions.
- Investors would look very dimly on an acquisition as the synergies are not that significant.