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UK
/bɪnˈaɪtɪd/
]
[ US /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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overtaken by night or darkness
benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home -
lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
this benighted country
the dark ages
benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
a dark age in the history of education
How To Use benighted In A Sentence
- Besides suffering through a variety of severe but all-too-common mine accidents in its benighted history, the coalfields of Vancouver Island have also played host to some of B.C.'s most famous activists.
- Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
- But isn't it surprising there have not been more deaths in that benighted land where people seem to have nothing else to do but take potshots at our boys.
- Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
- Protagonists are helpless and feeble, benighted, physically weak and powerless.
- Along with the time flies we grew up gradually,become increasingly miss myself benighted.
- Father, said Jack, can you lodge a benighted traveller that has lost his way?"
- Seen in this benighted context, the election is as inexplicable as it is marvellous.
- When Mr. Heath, the benighted and storm-delayed traveler, threw back his dripping coat, and seated himself at the invitation of his host, before the blazing fire, Mr. Abbot thought that he had seldom seen a more attractive young man.
- But is it right that our appetites wreak havoc on a country most of us have never been, and where grinding poverty of a kind that's been eliminated in even the most benighted, neglected corners of our own country is as common as it is confining?