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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
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
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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