Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blindfoldly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: blind-fold-ly
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Synonym of blindfold (“blindly; without due thought or caution”)

Indian usage; Archaic

Example Sentences

"[…] and can the English farmer see no further before him than thus to tread blindfoldly in the footsteps of the brute creation?"
"[T]o the Native dyers of India is no less due the merit of having inherited and improved, from their ancestors, it may be blindfoldly, all and perhaps more than has been as yet discovered by their more fortunate brethren of the West, through scientific methods."
"[…] yet most of the third world countries have invariably inclined to blindfoldly import the ill suited and inappropriate western technologies […]"

Etymology

blindfold + -ly

Word Breakdown

Suffix: blindfold

Usage

Inflected Forms

more blindfoldly (comparative) most blindfoldly (superlative)

Synonyms

blindfold

Questions

What does blindfoldly mean?: Synonym of blindfold (“blindly; without due thought or caution”)
Where does blindfoldly come from?: blindfold + -ly

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