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benighted

Pronunciation: /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/

The English word “benighted” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
  2. Plunged into darkness.
  3. Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
  4. Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

Etymology

From benight + -ed.

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