benighted
11benighted — benightedly, adv. benightedness, n. /bi nuy tid/, adj. 1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition. 2. overtaken by darkness or night. [1565 75; benight (BE + NIGHT) + ED2] Syn. 1. backward,… …
12benighted — be|night|ed [bıˈnaıtıd] adj literary [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: benighted trapped by the darkness of the night (16 20 centuries), from night] having no knowledge or understanding >benightedly adv …
13benighted — /bəˈnaɪtəd / (say buh nuytuhd) adjective 1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: *None of these was considered worthy of attention, so long as government and the churches saw Aboriginal nomadism as a benighted form of existence.… …
14Benighted (disambiguation) — Benighted could be one of the following things:* Benighted, a French brutal death metal band, based in Saint Étienne * Benighted , a film about werewolves * Benighted , a novel by Kit Whitfield * Benighted Leams, an English black metal project *… …
15benighted — adjective Date: 15th century 1. overtaken by darkness or night 2. existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness ; unenlightened • benightedly adverb • benightedness noun …
16benighted — adjective a) plunged into darkness And lonely as it is, that loneliness b) overtaken by night Will be more lonely ere it will be less …
17benighted — Synonyms and related words: 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… …
18benighted — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Exhibiting lack of education or knowledge: backward, ignorant, primitive, unenlightened. See KNOWLEDGE …
19benighted — be|night|ed [ bı naıtəd ] adjective OLD FASHIONED lacking knowledge or advantages that other people or places have …
20benighted — be·night·ed || bɪ naɪtɪd adj. ignorant, uneducated; unenlightened; caught in the darkv. overtake by darkness …
