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# blindly

«blindly» in Mova's school dictionary: **without looking, or without being able to see** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (blindly); from the adjective blind

### meaning for a pupil

1) Blindly means without looking, or without being able to see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#m1)

2) Blindly means without thinking first, or without asking questions, like blindly following someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in chance problems: picking blindly from a bag means picking without looking; in everyday life and safety: do not blindly trust a stranger or a website, check first; in stories someone feels blindly along a dark wall

### examples

- She takes a ball blindly from the bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x1)
- He picks a sock blindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x2)
- How many must he take blindly to be sure of a pair? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x3)
- Do not answer blindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x4)
- In the dark cave, Tom felt blindly for the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x5)
- Don't blindly believe everything you read online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x6)
- The puppy followed its mother blindly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x7)
- He ran blindly into the fog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x8)
- He picked himself up and ran, and was knocked down, and ran again blindly, butting into trees and stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/#x9)

### note

Picking without looking: think of the worst case. Trap: to be sure of two of one colour, take one more than the number of colours. Adverb of «blind» (+ -ly). «Blindly» about trust means without checking.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blindly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blindly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.