Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: blindly
IPA transcription: [bl'aɪndli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blindly
    Meaning: without seeing or looking; "he felt around his desk blindly"
  • Synonyms: blindly
    Meaning: without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; "they bought the car blindly"; "he picked a wife blindly"
Usage examples
  • He started blindly through the grass.
  • Let me give him the last knot." He staggered blindly to his feet.
  • Kane's rapier sang like an arrow in the dark as he thrust blindly and ferociously.
  • He therefore struck out blindly and cruelly, and the innocent went down with the guilty.
  • However, if the weather doesn't clear by to-morrow, we must either march blindly on or reduce food.
  • This time running blindly, I went northeastward in a direction at right angles to my previous expedition.
  • His face was turned to the sky, his eyes blindly staring; there was no pulse, no breath; he was already cold in death.
  • "Who?" cried Joel, staring around blindly, "who, Polly?" Polly had just opened her lips to explain, when Mr. King's portly, handsome figure appeared in the doorway.
  • If the workers can do nothing but blindly pursue the same tasks, it is to be expected that the wages of hand-labor will fall in a particular trade into which machinery is suddenly introduced.
  • But it has always seemed to me that it MUST be HEAVENLY to be loved blindly, passionately, wholly . . . worshipped, in fact--and the very fact that Percy was slow and stupid was an attraction for me, as I thought he would love me all the more.