BENIGHTED

benighted, dark

(adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; “this benighted country”; “benighted ages of barbarism and superstition”; “the dark ages”; “a dark age in the history of education”

benighted, nighted

(adjective) overtaken by night or darkness; “benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

benighted (comparative more benighted, superlative most benighted)

(obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.

(obsolete) Plunged into darkness.

(figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.

Antonym: unbenighted

(figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with beknighted (“made a knight”).

Verb

benighted

simple past tense and past participle of benight

Anagrams

• benedight, get behind

Source: Wiktionary

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BENIGHT

Be*night", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Benighting.]

1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. Milton.

3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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