Synonyms for dimly
dim·ly

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1. dimly, indistinctlyadverb

   in a dim indistinct manner

   "we perceived the change only dimly"

   Synonyms:
   palely, pallidly, indistinctly, murkily

2. pallidly, palely, dimlyadverb

   in a manner lacking interest or vitality

   "a palely entertaining show"

   Synonyms:
   palely, pallidly, indistinctly, murkily

3. dimly, murkilyadverb

   with a dim light

   "a dimly lit room"

   Synonyms:
   palely, pallidly, indistinctly, murkily

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1. List of paraphrases for "dimly":

   weakly

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How to use dimly in a sentence?

1. Thomas Carlyle:

   Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

2. Carlyle:

   It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

3. Albert Einstein:

   The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

4. Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry:

   I braced myself, went in. The room was dimly lit, unfamiliar - I ’d been inside it only once in my life. I moved ahead uncertainly, and there she was. I stood, frozen, staring. I stared and stared. It was difficult, but I kept on, thinking how I ’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end. Years of lamenting that lack of proof, postponing my grief for want of proof. Now I thought : Proof. Careful what Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry wish for.

5. Herbert Hensley Henson:

   Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection.