underlit

American  

[uhn-der-lit] / ˌʌn dərˈlɪt /

adjective

1. lacking adequate light.

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Etymology

Origin of underlit

under- + lit ¹

Example Sentences

Additionally, throughout there remains a suppressed color palate that keeps the presentation looking a bit underlit, with occasional pale skin tones and some sickly-hued scenes that enforce a gritty realism.

From Washington Times • Aug. 13, 2022

In today’s restlessly edited, underlit era of movies, faces don’t get a lot of worshipful real estate as those essential portals to a person’s soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2021

There is nothing akin to the icy, underlit branches of 2017 that turned the East Colonnade into what some likened to a barren, dystopian landscape.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2020

The deer come back, “spirits drifting, foraging, so many / souls of the damned,” a peril to the couple driving late at night on underlit roads. 

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2016

In her eyes, we were a class of “bad kids,” though we had no guidance and no structure and had been sentenced to a grim, underlit room in the basement of the school.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama