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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#m1)

2) Dimly means not clearly, in a faint or uncertain way (dimly remember). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x1)
- I dimly remember my first day at nursery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x2)
- The bulb shone dimly because the battery was flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x3)
- Stars glowed dimly through the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x4)
- She was dimly aware of a noise downstairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x5)
- We walked along the dimly lit corridor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x6)
- She turned round, and--was it her fancy? or did the fire burn more dimly than before? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dimly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dimly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.