单词	benighted
释义	benighted adjective be·​night·​ed bi-ˈnī-təd  bē- 1 : overtaken by darkness or night Benighted travellers … have seen his midnight candle glimmering. W. B. Yeats 2 : existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened spreading their message among these poor benighted people a strange, benighted country benightedly adverb benightedness noun Synonyms analphabetic dark ignorant illiterate nonliterate rude simple uneducated uninstructed unlearned unlettered unread unschooled untaught untutored See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading Recent Examples on the Web What is the appeal of such a benighted destination? Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 Reading about it today in Scull’s narrative is enough to make one’s skin crawl and fill one’s head with wonder at man’s benighted capacity for cruelty in the name of kindness. Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022 Women will no longer have control over their own bodies in half of this benighted country. Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022 This point is undoubtedly true, but to use Doris Day movies as an example of a benighted time doesn’t track. New York Times, 27 May 2022 But the pictures in Salih’s series continually disrupt expectations of young refugees as benighted figures or objects of pity. Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022 The Russian economy is in free fall, with Putin’s benighted subjects already waiting in Soviet-style lines for staples such as sugar and flour. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 24 Mar. 2022 When Shortie is secured in the van, Gator — the PETA staffer who has made the most trips to this benighted place and has witnessed the dogs’ deterioration firsthand — is crying with relief. Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021 Our reduced olfactory apparatus was the detritus of a bestial and benighted past, and an allegory of our enlightenment. Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 benighted adjective as in ignorant lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance ignorant dark untutored uneducated untaught inexperienced illiterate uninstructed unschooled unlearned nonliterate unlettered innocent naive simple rude unread semiliterate foolish uncultured unsophisticated unknowledgeable stupid idiotic analphabetic callow uncultivated moronic philistine dumb imbecile artless lowbrow witless functionally illiterate innumerate naïve unskilled green untrained silly imbecilic brainless idiotical senseless raw Antonyms & Near Antonyms literate educated brilliant knowledgeable intelligent schooled experienced smart erudite intellectual lettered expert well-informed familiar well-read learned trained scholarly cultured sophisticated highbrow acquainted cultivated aware polymathic polymath polyhistoric See More
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