dimly

«dimly» in Mova's school dictionary: with only a little light, not brightly — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (dimly, more dimly)

meaning for a pupil

1) Dimly means with only a little light, not brightly. tree →

2) Dimly means not clearly, in a faint or uncertain way (dimly remember). tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories a dimly lit room, cave or street creates a mysterious or scary mood. In everyday life you dimly remember something from when you were very young. In science, a bulb shines dimly when the battery is weak. Phrases: dimly lit, dimly remember, dimly aware, shine dimly.

examples

• The cave was dimly lit by our torches. tree →
• I dimly remember my first day at nursery. tree →
• The bulb shone dimly because the battery was flat. tree →
• Stars glowed dimly through the clouds. tree →
• She was dimly aware of a noise downstairs. tree →
• We walked along the dimly lit corridor. tree →
• She turned round, and--was it her fancy? or did the fire burn more dimly than before? tree →

note

An adverb from the adjective «dim». Spelling: dim + ly (one m). Opposite: brightly, clearly.

In the corpora

• A glow stick in the freezer glows more dimly but lasts longer, because cold slows the reaction down.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dimly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.