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Meaning of benighted

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

benighted

Pronunciation:/bɪˈnaɪtɪd//bə-/

verb

Definitions

  1. (chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.

  2. To darken; to shroud or obscure.

  3. To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.

  2. Plunged into darkness.

  3. Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.

    Antonyms:unbenighted

  4. Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benighthttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benighted

Related words

unenlighteneddarkunpunctualnightedignorantunawareuninformednight-blind