benighted
Meaning of benighted
verb
- (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.
- 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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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:
Meaning dark:
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Words that rhyme with benighted
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