Meaning of BENIGHTED

Pronunciation:			bi'nItid
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education" [adj]  overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
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	Synonyms:		dark, nighted, unenlightened, unpunctual
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		ableptical, amaurotic, backward, bereft of light, blind, color-blind, dark, dim-sighted, empty-headed, eyeless, hemeralopic, ignorant, illiterate, in darkness, in the dark, know-nothing, mind-blind, naive, night-overtaken, nyctalopic, rayless, sightless, spiritually blind, stark blind, stone-blind, undiscerning, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninstructed, unlettered, unobserving, unperceiving, unprogressive, unschooled, unseeing, untaught, untutored, visionless