Synonyms for dimly
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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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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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Edwin P. Whipple:

   An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.