benighted

Meaning of benighted

verb
  1. (chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
  2. To darken; to shroud or obscure.
  3. To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
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.

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Hyphenation of benighted

be-nighted

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • benighted is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

benighted synonyms

Meaning nighted:

nighted

Meaning dark:

dark

benighted antonyms

Meaning :

unbenighted

Anagrams of benighted

benedight

Words that rhyme with benighted

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