benighted.
Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From benight + -ed.
simple past and past participle of benight
Where this word comes from
From benight + -ed.
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