benighted
IPA: bɪnˈaɪtɪd
adjective
- (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.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
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Examples of "benighted" in Sentences
- US is benighted in this respect.
- I live in the benighted colonies, you see.
- Well, it's sure more benighted than benign.
- This benighted project would do well to learn from them.
- Australia is not as culturally benighted as you might think.
- In the beginning, Benighted played a mix of death metal and grindcore.
- He's a benighted overambitious househusband whom everyone believes is mad.
- The host and audience are judge and jury for the miserable, benighted guests.
- My patience for dealing with a profoundly benighted anonymous user has run out.
- Can you enlighten a benighted and so save civilization from my spastic fingers
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