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benighted

[ bih-nahy-tid ]

adjective

  1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened:

    benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. overtaken by darkness or night.


benighted

/ ɪˈԲɪɪ /

adjective

  1. lacking cultural, moral, or intellectual enlightenment; ignorant
  2. archaic.
    overtaken by night
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԾٱԱ, noun
  • ˈԾٱ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ԾĻ· adverb
  • ·ԾĻ·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of benighted1

First recorded in 1565–75; be- + night + -ed 2
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Under the guise of morality, benighted political interests are being advanced.

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Fauci had already received death threats from members of this benighted group, resulting in the government placing him under the protection of armed federal agents.

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The reference is to that benighted state’s surprising success in improving reading scores for its fourth-graders through a focused program of literacy instruction for teachers and pupils alike.

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But his loyal idiots, those benighted Americans who continue to worship him, have not given up.

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Banham’s revolutionary study has aged both well and badly; his sense of the liberatory aspect of the freeways, for instance, now seems both sentimental and benighted.

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