dim-lit

adjective

Dimly illuminated.

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Meanings

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

comparative more dim-lit · superlative most dim-lit · alternative dimlit

  1. Dimly illuminated.

    Collin stepped through the doorway and into the dim-lit room.

    2015, R.M. Houchin, A Desert Kill
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    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

    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

Origin

From dim + lit.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

dim-lit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dim-lit

MLA

“dim-lit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dim-lit. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dim-lit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dim-lit.

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