Blindly
['blaɪndlɪ] or ['blaɪndli]
Definition
(adv.) without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; 'they bought the car blindly'; 'he picked a wife blindly'.
(adv.) without seeing or looking; 'he felt around his desk blindly'.
Checker: Ophelia--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- You shall be commander of the expedition, and I'll obey blindly, will that satisfy you? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When they heard the news, one was too ill to move; the other made his helot guide him to the battle, and there struck blindly until he was killed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was wicked to let a young girl blindly decide her fate in that way, without any effort to save her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting--eh? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I've gone blindly on, hurting myself and other people, for the sake of money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- For three heavy hours, the stone faces of the chateau, lion and human, stared blindly at the night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Well, the only thing I can do is to trust blindly in Crispin, for I am sure he will not fail me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But for the thing of tomorrow I will obey thee blindly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Archer pushed forward, elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into window after window of the high-hung carriages. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- GLADIATORIAL After the fiasco of the proposal, Birkin had hurried blindly away from Beldover, in a whirl of fury. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I seriously determined to choose my own religion, instead of following blindly that which happened to be my father's. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You would die blindly and meekly for me, but you would intelligently and gladly die for Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But even in such things there was an undue reliance upon mere custom, followed blindly rather than understandingly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the retrograde movement towards the gate had begun--as unreasoningly, perhaps as blindly, as the simultaneous anger. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The greatest power is the one that is subtle and adjusts itself, not one which blindly attacks. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It had distracted him to struggle blindly through the maze of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am not brutally selfish, blindly unjust, or fiendishly ungrateful. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yet again, they were flickering their way to the centre, finding the path blindly, enviously. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They blindly persevered in their own schemes, and left to the colonists no alternative but opposition or unconditional submission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He turned up the hill, and stumbled blindly over the wild slopes, having lost the path in the complete darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had found his way to the bed, and his outstretched hand touched her warm breast blindly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It closed with her in the darkness like some formless evil to be blindly grappled with. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Monica