adjective
overtaken by night or darkness
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- benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
adjective
lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
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- this benighted country
- benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
- the dark ages
- a dark age in the history of education
verb
overtake with darkness or night
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verb
envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
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- The benighted peoples of this area
verb
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
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