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blindly

/ˈblaɪndli/

blindly adverb: in a blind manner; without sight.

Adverb

blindly (comparative more blindly, superlative most blindly)

  1. In a blind manner; without sight.
    • I stumbled blindly through the forest, branches whipping at my face.
  2. Without consideration or question.
    • 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.1940 March 19, Albert Einstein, letter to Morris Raphael Cohen
    • 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.2017, BioWare, quoting Akksul, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: No Subject
    Synonyms:
    unthinkingly

blindly meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

blindly in Tamil

கண்மூடித்தனமாக, குருட்டுத்தனமாக

blindly in Marathi

आंधळेपणाने

blindly in Bengali

sightlessly
অন্ধভাবে ondhobhabe
without consideration or question
অন্ধভাবে ondhobhabe

blindly in Telugu

sightlessly
గుడ్డిగా guḍḍigā
More languagesFewer languages
blindly in Malayalam
അന്ധമായി, കണ്ണുമടച്ച്, കാണാതെ, കാഴ്ചയില്ലാതെ
blindly in Odia
ଅନ୍ଧ ଭାବରେ, ଅନ୍ଧ ଭାବେ

Examples of blindly in a sentence

  • He had a habit of blindly following the leader, almost like he would follow them off a cliff.
  • I didn't want to run blindly into that caldera and hope for Yahtzee.
  • Podestrians, as they've been labeled, wander blindly into moving traffic, smiling happily to Neil diamond.

All 26 example sentences with blindly

Synonyms of blindly

Forms of blindly

comparativemore blindly
superlativemost blindly

Origin of blindly

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”).

Words that rhyme with blindly

Questions about blindly

What does blindly mean?
Blindly means in a blind manner; without sight.
What is blindly in Tamil?
Blindly in Tamil is கண்மூடித்தனமாக, குருட்டுத்தனமாக. See Blindly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is blindly?
Blindly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce blindly?
Blindly is pronounced /ˈblaɪndli/.

Words near blindly in the dictionary

  1. blindisms
  2. blindless
  3. Blindley Heath
  4. blindling
  5. blindlings
  6. blindly
  7. blindman
  8. blindman's buff
  9. blindman's holiday
  10. blindmen
  11. blindness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blindly (page history and authors); blindly (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blindly (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blindly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); blindly (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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