blindly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English blindly, blyndly, from Old English blindlīċe (“in a blind manner; blindly; rashly”), equivalent to blind + -ly. Cognate with Swedish blindligt (“blindly”), Icelandic blindlega (“blindly”). Compare also West Frisian blindich (“blindly”), Dutch blindelings (“blindly”), German blindlings (“blindly”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]blindly (comparative more blindly, superlative most blindly)
- In a blind manner; without sight.
- Synonyms: eyelessly, sightlessly
- I stumbled blindly through the forest, branches whipping at my face.
- Without consideration or question.
- Synonym: unthinkingly
- Coordinate terms: carelessly, rotely
- 1940 March 19, Albert Einstein, letter to Morris Raphael Cohen
- The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
- 2017, BioWare, quoting Akksul, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: No Subject:
- Human,
"To hate blindly is as dangerous as to trust blindly." An old angaran proverb, one of many I have forgotten somewhere along the way.
Translations
[edit]sightlessly
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without consideration or question
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