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Benighted

bɪˈnʌɪtɪd

Benighted definitions

adjective

Inflections:

benighted

in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance

"they saw themselves as bringers of culture to poor benighted peoples"

Synonyms:
ignorant unenlightened uneducated unschooled untutored illiterate unlettered unlearned unscholarly unread uninformed backward simple
overtaken by darkness

"a storm developed and we were forced to wait benighted near the summit"