Adjective benighted has 2 senses
- benighted, nighted - overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
Antonym: punctual (indirect, via unpunctual)
- benighted, dark - lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
Antonym: enlightened (indirect, via unenlightened)
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Verb benight has 3 senses
- benight - overtake with darkness or night
--1 is one way to overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- benight - envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness; "The benighted peoples of this area"
--2 is one way to envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- obscure, benight, bedim - make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake"
--3 is one way to darken
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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