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Without questioning, as following a doctrine
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blindly
Word definitions for blindly in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. without seeing or looking; "he felt around his desk blindly" without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; "they bought the car blindly"; "he picked a wife blindly"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blindly \Blind"ly\, adv. Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. By his imperious mistress blindly led. --Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English blindlice ; see blind (adj.) + -ly (2).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES blindly obey (= to obey without asking any questions ) ▪ He looked terrified, but blindly obeyed. stare unseeingly/blindly literary (= not noticing anything, although your eyes are open ) ▪ She sat down on the bed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a blind manner; without sight; sightlessly. 2 Without consideration or question.
Usage examples of blindly.
Over a century after coca was taxed by the clergy, we still find reports of its satanic influences, and it is just such reports that, blindly cited by later commentators, would help to propagate the myth of coca chewing as a dangerous, addictive habit - a myth that survives to this day.
Walking through a wall in the pitch black, feeling the rough adobe as she made her way blindly down a secret passageway, was sensible?
Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.
The main company of the expedition wanted to sit tight with the tents and weather it out, but Angekok insisted that we would be better off tramping blindly through the snow.
Merduks had arquebusiers up on the battlements firing blindly into the Torunnan ranks.
It snapped blindly at the biologist, coming within inches of his fingers.
They pushed their way blindly through shrubbery, Bluey cursing all the way.
No one spoke to him or even seemed to see him: several times his head was struck by an arm or hand blindly reaching out toward the platter, or raising a canape to an open mouth.
Father Cesare blindly, his mind rapidly putting all the facts together.
While Kurman and Cleer suspected Wylett blindly, The Shadow had real reasons for classing Wylett as the murderer.
As the swaying, bellowing mass swept along in the moonlight, crashing and trampling through the light outlying timber, some of the coachers were seen working their way to the lead, and the wild cattle having no settled plan, followed them blindly.
Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.
There were many doors and many novices enwombed safely within their cells, lying blindly and deafly as bodies in a prayer ship.
She clapped her hands over her ears and stumbled blindly toward the two lane black top road some twenty feet beyond the gateless posts in front of her.
He had avoided a charge of murder, avoided riding blindly into a Seanchan trap that would have killed Tuon, and left the gholam behind for good this time.