benighted

/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/

IPA: /B IH0 N AY1 T IH0 D/

verb

1
(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
2
To darken; to shroud or obscure.
3
To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.

adjective

1
Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
2
Plunged into darkness.
3
Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
ant:unbenighted
4
Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

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