Benighted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]
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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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