Definitions for benighted

benighted be·night·ed

Spelling: [bih-nahy-tid]
IPA: /bɪˈnaɪ tɪd/

Benighted is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in benighted (bdeeghint).

Definitions for benighted

adjective

  1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened:
  2. overtaken by darkness or night.

Origin of benighted

1565-75; benight (be- + night) + -ed2

Examples for benighted

And on a day it befell him that he was benighted in a hermitage.

It is here, gentle shepherds, the benighted stand most in need of your labors.

In 1975 he went from benighted Warsaw to far more benighted Luanda to cover the civil war in Angola.

Colonial rhetoric was often virtuous: colonizers would bring civilization to benighted Africans.

I knew immediately where to locate my benighted family and growing restlessness.

It was these benighted folk whom they desired to reach and convert.

More than once some benighted angler had mentioned bonefish to me.

But I quickly realized that no one really thought that—and if they did think that, they were too benighted to worry about.

Last week, I took it upon myself to introduce you benighted savages to one of the great comedies of modern times.

A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

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