'Benighted' definitions:
Definition of 'benighted'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home" [syn: benighted, nighted]
adjective
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: benighted, dark]
Definition of 'Benighted'
From: GCIDE
- 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] [1913 Webster]
- The clouds benight the sky. --Garth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. [1913 Webster]
- Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. [1913 Webster]
- Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? --Heber. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'benighted'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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