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Definition: Blindly |
BlindlyAdverb1. Without seeing or looking; "he felt around his desk blindly". 2. Without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; "they bought the car blindly"; "he picked a wife blindly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blindly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Blindly |
| English words defined with "blindly": bigoted ♦ fumble ♦ grope ♦ idol, idolatrous, idolisation, idolization ♦ matinee idol ♦ slavish ♦ To lead by the nose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blindly": advanced guard. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Walk blindly to the light and reach out for his hand (I Believe; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) Staring blindly into space (25 or 6 to 4; performing artist: Chicago) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Secret Agent X-9. As Marlowe's plane speeds blindly westward toward the Mask's trap ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jean Paul Richter | Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. |
Robert Burns | Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted. |
Sir Thomas Browne | But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He lived constantly in the darkness, groping blindly and as in a dream |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He stood up in terror and walked blindly into the box. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Her hand went blindly out and put the little bag of sugar on the pile in her arm. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A person dreaming about a ball game, for example, may run headlong into furniture or blindly strike someone sleeping nearby while trying to catch a ball in the dream. (references) | |
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| "Blindly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blindly" is used about 306 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 306 | 16,534 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blindly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blindly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | verbazi (groping), verbërisht (blindfold), automatikisht (automatically, matter of course). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو أعمى, على العمياني, بتهور (at full tilt, headlong, impulsively, pell mell, rashly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сляпо (unquestioningly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 盲目, 盲從 (blindly follow). (various references) | |
Czech | slepì. (various references) | |
Danish | blindudtynding (working blindly). (various references) | |
Dutch | blindelings dunnen (working blindly). (various references) | |
French | en aveugle, comme un aveugle, aveuglément (blindness), l'aveuglette. (various references) | |
German | blindlings (blindfold), blind (blind, clouded, false, invisible, purblind, pure, sheer, sightless, tarnished, unquestioning, unquestioningly, unreasoning, unseeing, unthinking, unthinkingly). (various references) | |
Greek | με κλειστά μάτια, με κλειστά τα μάτια, ωχρότητα (luridness, paleness, sallowness, shopping center, wanness), τυφλά. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vakon (blindfold, unseeingly). (various references) | |
Indonesian | secara membabi buta, awut (carelessly). (various references) | |
Italian | diradamento alla cieca (working blindly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 闇雲 (at random, recklessly), 矢鱈に (randomly, recklessly), 一筋 (a line, earnestly, straightforwardly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとすじ (a line, earnestly, straightforwardly), ひとすき (a line, earnestly, straightforwardly), やたらに (randomly, recklessly), やみくも (at random, recklessly). (various references) | |
Korean | 눈 멀게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indlyblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cegamente (blindfold, implicitly). (various references) | |
Romanian | orbeşte (automatically, blindfoldedly, haphazardly, mechanically, passionately, recklessly, robot-like, unconsciously). (various references) | |
Russian | слепо. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slepo (blindfold), pipajući (gropingly), nerazumno (grain: against the grain, senseless), negledajući. (various references) | |
Spanish | ciegamente, a ciegas (a pig in a poke, blind). (various references) | |
Swedish | blint, blindligt. (various references) | |
Turkish | körü körüne (blindfold, gropingly, imprudently, slavish), görmeden. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нерозсудливо (blindfold, madly, unadvisedly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mù quáng mò mẫm, mù (haze, sightless). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | temere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "blindly": purblindly. (additional references) | |
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"Blindly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ballintoy, Bilinelli, blandy, blindy, blondy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blindly" (pronounced blī"ndlē) |
| 5 | -ī" n d l ē | kindly. |
| 4 | -n d l ē | blandly, fondly, friendly, grandly, profoundly, roundly, secondly, soundly, unfriendly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, gladly, godly, goodly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, shrewdly, solidly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-i-l-l-n-y" | |
-2 letters: billy, blind, dilly, idyll, lindy. | |
-3 letters: bill, bind, blin, dill, idly, idyl, illy, inby, inly, lily, liny, nill, yill. | |
-4 letters: bid, bin, dib, din, ill, lib, lid, lin, nib, nil, yid, yin. | |
-5 letters: bi, by, id, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-i-l-l-n-y" | |
+2 letters: indelibly. | |
+3 letters: blindingly, purblindly. | |
+4 letters: abdominally, libidinally. | |
+5 letters: alloantibody, blunderingly, indelibility, indissolubly, libidinously. | |
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