Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Blind; blindly: Lacking insight, judgment, or reason to the point of being unable to distinguish right from wrong, good from bad, or truth from falsehood. It describes uncritical acceptance or action driven by emotion, faith, or bias rather than logic or evidence.
   • Unreasoning; unthinking: Characterized by a complete absence of rational thought or objective analysis.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Anh ấy có lòng tin mù quáng vào nhà lãnh đạo. (He has a blind faith in the leader.)
  • Sự tuân phục mù quáng rất nguy hiểm. (Blind obedience is very dangerous.)
  • Hành động mù quáng đó dẫn đến thất bại. (That blind action led to failure.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in a figurative sense to criticize a mental or behavioral state, not a physical condition of blindness.
• It often modifies abstract nouns like (faith), (obedience), (love), or (ism, e.g., chủ nghĩa dân tộc mù quáng - blind nationalism).

Variants and Related Words

• Mù quáng hóa (v): to blindfold; to cause someone to become blind (figuratively).
  • Sự tuyên truyền đã mù quáng hóa quần chúng. (The propaganda blinded the masses.)

Synonyms

• Blind: (as in blind faith, blind devotion).
• Unquestioning: (as in unquestioning loyalty).
• Irrational: not based on reason.
• Dogmatic: inclined to lay down principles as undeniably true.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Tin tưởng một cách mù quáng: To trust in a blind manner.

  • Cô ấy tin tưởng một cách mù quáng vào lời hứa của hắn. (She trusted his promise blindly.)

• Lòng trung thành mù quáng: Blind loyalty.

  • Lòng trung thành mù quáng có thể phá hủy tư duy phê phán. (Blind loyalty can destroy critical thinking.)

1. Blind
   • Mù quáng đối với khuyết điểm của con cái
     To blind to the faults of one's children
   • Tin một cách mù quáng
     To have a blind confidence in someone