Define the word benighted"Benighted" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
benight \be*night"\ (b[-e]*n[imac]t"), 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]
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The clouds benight the sky. --Garth.
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2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the
end of a day's journey or task.
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Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods.
--Milton.
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3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from
intellectual light.
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Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny ? --Heber.
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"benighted" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
benighted
adj 1: overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted)
travelers hurrying toward home" [syn: nighted]
2: 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" [syn: dark]
"benighted" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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