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benighted
adjective
(be-night-ed)
overtaken by night or darkness
Synonyms:
nighted
,
Examples:
Benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home.
benighted
adjective
(be-night-ed)
lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Synonyms:
dark
,
Examples:
This benighted country.
Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
Words Related to
benighted
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unenlightened
,
unpunctual
,
dark
,
nighted
,
ignorant
,
uninformed
,
unaware
,
wretched
,
godforsaken
,
beggarly
,
feckless
,
pusillanimous
,
enlightened
,
baleful
,
witless
,
delusory
,
loathsome
,
cultureless
,
iniquitous
,
cretinous
,
simpleminded
,
deluded
,
antediluvian
,
damnable
,
abject
,
pathetic
,
smug
,
pitiful
,
fatuous
,
sheeplike
,
misbegotten
,
deracinated
,
unoffending
,
gombeen
,
opprobrious
,
godless
,
swiftian
,
philistine
,
heathen
,
uncouth
,
uncharitable
,
rebarbative
,
pitiable
,
verminous
,
lumpen
,
troglodytic
,
unregenerate
,
uppity
,
unheeding
,
regnant
,
highborn
,
pharisaical
,
pestilential
,
hapless
,
selfsame
,
stalinist
,
rapacious
,
effete
,
purblind
,
prelapsarian
,
maleficent
,
pestilent
,
swinish
,
destitute
,
meanspirited
,
moronic
,
whiggish
,
unthinking
,
myopic
,
sanctimonious
,
supercilious
,
pitying
,
accursed
,
despotic
,
downtrodden
,
totalistic
,
querulous
,
barbarous
,
dunderheaded
,
solipsistic
,
unmodern
,
unassimilable
,
muddleheaded
,
untutored
,
perfervid
,
contemptible
,
scrofulous
,
venal
,
obscurantist
,
odious
,
ravening
,
abominable
,
blinkered
,
imbecilic
,
atavistic
,
politer
,
propertied
,
collectivist
,
subjugated
,
unlovely
,
benighted
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