Benighted

What do we mean by benighted?

Overtaken by night or darkness. adjective

Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened. adjective

Overtaken with night; hence, involved in moral darkness or ignorance: as, benighted Hottentots.

Plunged into darkness adjective

Overtaken by night adjective

Lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of benight. verb

Overtaken by night or darkness adjective

Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture adjective

(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.

Words that are spelled similarly to benighted:
benighted, bedighted, delighted, blighted, benight, weighted, nighted, knighted, relighted, enlighted, unbenighted.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word benighted:
metal, pass, how, french, recorded, released, album.

Words that rhyme with benighted:
excited, unrequited, delighted, united, cited, expedited, indicted, slighted, blighted, highlighted, sighted, shortsighted, lighted, sited, farsighted, incited, ignited, whited, uninvited, invited, nearsighted, indited, copyrighted, recited, spited, reunited, righted, plighted, extradited, nighted, dighted, reignited, overexcited, kited, flighted, knighted, frighted, spotlighted, disinvited, unindicted, copywrited, night hid, reinvited, site id.

Adjectives that are often used to describe benighted:
wild.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective benighted:
people, heathen, land, world, soul, country, traveller, souls, state, condition, mind, travellers, region, regions, creatures, savages, nations, age, heathens, place, men, minds, ignorance, africa, countrymen, wilderness, lands, natives, race, peoples, days, ones, past, inhabitants, children, south, masses, creature, brethren, continent, wanderer, pagans, indians, town, europe, countries, traveler, beings, parts, races, nation, africans, snow, heart, sons, millions, understanding, city, travelers, foreigner, folk, tribes, ages, mortals, superstition, foreigners, era, spot, humanity, wanderers, island, being, earth, province, ancestors, followers, village, portion, persons, presidency, understandings, views, stranger, pagan, islanders, individuals, district, papists, barbarians.

Consonant match to benighted:
bonneted, be noted, ben hated.

Words that sound like benighted:
benighted, bonneted, bunted, bended, banstead, bayonetted, belated, bonded, beheaded, bounded, banded, besotted, binded, berated, blighted, benito, punted, bigoted, billeted, betided, bountied, binetti, benita, bumstead, bayoneted, united, painted, pointed, hinted, panted, busted, blunted, bonita, bested, bonito, belted, betted, butted, bitted, benites, budgeted, bonite, benetti, banita, bonetta, benedight, hunted, bestowed, bloated, booted, bandaid, baited, bated, bolted, batted, boosted, boasted, band-aid, band aid, benight, betide, boated, bided, benard, binet, bantered, builded, benumbed, been at, pended, pentad, binit, bandied, bonetti, bennette, brinded, befitted, binette, boneheaded, bright eyed, pinnata, borated, bright-eyed, benighting, bindweed, pineta, by night, bondad, bruited, betid, bemired, bombycid, pentode, pronated, bilsted, benaiah, bestead, bestud, haunted, bonehead.