dim-lit

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

dim + lit

Adjective

dim-lit (comparative more dim-lit, superlative most dim-lit)

  1. Dimly illuminated.
    • 2014, B. G. Simpson, Bailey’s Road:
      The distance down a dim-lit, dark dusty road was too far for the eye to see, not for the fainthearted to aloft on foot.
    • 2015, R.M. Houchin, A Desert Kill:
      Collin stepped through the doorway and into the dim-lit room.
    • 2016, W. David Soud, Divine Cartographies:
      I felt immediately that oneness between the Offerant and those toughs that clustered round him in the dim-lit byre—a thing I had never felt remotely as a Protestant at the Office of Holy Communion in spite of the insistence of Protestant theology on the 'priesthood of the laity'.
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