dim-lit

dim-lit

English

Etymology

dim +‎ lit

Alternative forms

• dimlit

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'.