benighted

Meanings

Verb

• overtake with darkness or night
• envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
  • "The benighted peoples of this area"
• make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
• simple past and past participle of benight

Adjective Satellite

• overtaken by night or darkness
  • "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
• lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
  • "this benighted country"
  • "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"

Adj

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

Synonyms

bedim, benight, dark, nighted

Antonyms

unbenighted