Benighted Synonyms

bĭ-nītĭd
Exhibiting lack of education or knowledge
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. backward
  2. ignorant
  3. dark
  4. primitive
  5. unenlightened
  6. color-blind
  7. mind-blind
  8. nyctalopic
Overtaken by night or darkness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nighted

Words Related to Benighted

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. knowledge
  2. wretched
  3. down-trodden

Benighted Sentence Examples

  • Maybe the early academic critics who rated this appeal rather low were not so benighted after all.

  • Completed route and Walk Off then got benighted trying to find way down to Base.

  • He became lost, descended into the wrong valley and became benighted with an injured ankle.

  • And then, into this becalmed, benighted backwater come too lippy young Muscovites on the make.

  • All these might pass for religious wars, and they might really be so; it needed greater ingenuity to set forth the invasion of England as a missionary enterprise designed for the spiritual good of the benighted islanders.

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