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