About The Word Benighted

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Benighted

Benighted Meaning & Definition
Benighted Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Benighted?

[adj] 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"
[adj] overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Benighted: dark | nighted | unenlightened | unpunctual

Related Terms | Find terms related to Benighted: ableptical | amaurotic | backward | bereft of light | blind | color-blind | dark | dim-sighted | empty-headed | eyeless | hemeralopic | ignorant | illiterate | in darkness | in the dark | know-nothing | mind-blind | naive | night-overtaken | nyctalopic | rayless | sightless | spiritually blind | stark blind | stone-blind | undiscerning | uneducated | unenlightened | uninformed | uninstructed | unlettered | unobserving | unperceiving | unprogressive | unschooled | unseeing | untaught | untutored | visionless

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