A light level in which it is possible to see, but not clearly.
半暗
I made for the door and in the semi-darkness stumbled over one of the wellingtons
the shapes were unmistakable even in semi-darkness
Example sentencesExamples
Eventually, boredom conquered and I rose into the darkness, or semi-darkness.
Monday night's show is both dizzyingly ferocious and heartbreakingly beautiful, all choreographed in semi-darkness for maximum psychological impact.
A strong smell of disinfectant was hanging in the air, and fruit machines were winking sinisterly in semi-darkness.
Robert blinked in the sudden semi-darkness, the only illumination being the moonlight which shone through cracks in the curtains.
But all I could see were the dim lights that left the interior in semi-darkness.
I found these two gentlemen with their icons in semi-darkness at the west end of the Minster, largely ignored.
I plodded up the 92 steps in semi-darkness because the few tiny windows have been sealed off at the request of neighbours.
I tuned the shortwave radio to a Mozart concert and sat there in semi-darkness, smoking up an indoor fog of my own and feeling about as low as I've ever felt, before or since.
The screaming, the heroism and reasonable panic, the fumbling in semi-darkness for mobile phones - it was our safe distance from it all that was so horrifying.
I do believe that it ought to be listened to in semi-darkness.
I was waiting in the twilight semi-darkness, yawning, eyes half closed, and basically looking like a zombie.
What I also discovered was that using the projector meant working in semi-darkness, and there are times when you can't see what you are doing very clearly.
The fact that he films everything in semi-darkness adds to the murkiness of the plot.
Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions.
During the concert parts of the disc the picture is relatively sharp and clear, with good shadow detail, which is a good thing since they seem to like playing in semi-darkness.
The only way to make them economically viable is to intensively rear British farmers in huge barns where thousands of them can be kept in semi-darkness and fed mashed up, infected sheep pellets.
The semi-darkness around the pool was in harmony with the various rare instruments played and put the audience in the position of intimate onlookers of sacred rituals.
The shades had been pulled and the room was in semi-darkness.
After a year of semi-darkness, he signed us up to a privately-run powerhouse.
You have just 20 minutes in semi-darkness to memorise or scribble down the objects on view.
Synonyms
twilight, nightfall, sunset, sundown, evening, close of day