dim-lit

adj

dim-lit

adj

Etymology From dim + lit.

1

Dimly illuminated.

  • 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.2014, B. G. Simpson, Bailey’s Road:
  • Collin stepped through the doorway and into the dim-lit room.2015, R.M. Houchin, A Desert Kill:
1 more example
  • 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'.2016, W. David Soud, Divine Cartographies:

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