blindly
/ˈblaɪndli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Without consideration or question.
Example Sentences
- "I stumbled blindly through the forest, branches whipping at my face."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
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”).
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Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more blindly (comparative)
most blindly (superlative)