Blindly vs Blondly - What's the difference?
blindly | blondly |
In a blind manner; without sight; sightlessly.
Without consideration or question.
* 1940 March 19, Albert Einstein, letter to Morris Raphael Cohen
In a blond manner.
* 1969 , Booth Tarkington, Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings (page 1)
* 1984 , Samuel R. Delany, Carl Freedman, Stars in my pocket like grains of sand (page 85)
* 1993 , Wright Morris, Writing my life: an autobiography (page 380)
As adverbs the difference between blindly and blondly
is that blindly is in a blind manner; without sight; sightlessly while blondly is in a blond manner.blindly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
blondly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The portrait shows Essex's hair waved, almost curled, and dark auburn, darker than the blondly reddish beard, and this might be an accident of pigments unequally deepened by time; but that's improbable.
- I got chills, while on Clym's blondly hairy foot, a mechanical beetle with copper pincers crawled amidst tattooed green and yellow crenna roothairs, to disappear under his pants' cuff.
- Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete.
