Lit
Lit adjective - Filled with much light.
Usage example: the coat room was just lit well enough for us to identify our jackets
Somber
Somber adjective - Being without light or without much light.
Usage example: the prison's somber interrogation room has the desired effect of striking fear and despair into the prisoner
Both words in one sentence
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Shout-Out: A somber Asiatic character with dark eyes and strange gestures who is crouching barefoot on furniture while eating wanly, all of them in a dark lit Hacker Cave?
Source: Film / Banlieue 13: Ultimatum -
In the 5th season episode of House, after the characters find Kutner dead much of the rest of the episode is darkly lit and desaturated to reflect the somber mood.
Source: Deliberately Monochrome
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