BLINDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blindly mean? 

• BLINDLY (adverb)
  The adverb BLINDLY has 2 senses:

1. without seeing or looking

2. without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis

  Familiarity information: BLINDLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLINDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without seeing or looking

Context example:

he felt around his desk blindly

Pertainym:

blind (unable to see)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis

Context example:

he picked a wife blindly

Pertainym:

blind (not based on reason or evidence)

 Context examples 

Just now he ran blindly, his own bank of the Mackenzie alone entering into his calculations.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She felt incessant impulses to scream, to shriek, to collapse into the snow, to put her hands over her eyes and turn and run blindly away, into the forest, anywhere, away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I sprang upon him, blindly, insanely, and drove the knife into his shoulder.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I've gone blindly on, hurting myself and other people, for the sake of money.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He could not work blindly, in the dark, ignorant of what he was producing and trusting to chance and the star of his genius that the effect produced should be right and fine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I am not brutally selfish, blindly unjust, or fiendishly ungrateful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To barge blindly into it for want of a little common sense and patience isn't my notion of management.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So intent were they upon each other that neither took note of his approach; until, when he was close upon them, the man threw his arm roughly round the damsel's waist and drew her towards him, she straining her lithe, supple figure away and striking fiercely at him, while the hooded hawk screamed with ruffled wings and pecked blindly in its mistress's defence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, when we reached home, I dropped out of the chaise behind, as quickly as possible, that I might not be in their company before those solemn windows, looking blindly on me like closed eyes once bright.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had hoped that her regard for me would support her under any difficulty, and for some time it did; but at last the misery of her situation, for she experienced great unkindness, overcame all her resolution, and though she had promised me that nothing—but how blindly I relate!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)