benighted 音标拼音: [bɪn'ɑɪtɪd]
a . 赶路到天黑的,陷入黑夜的,愚昧的
赶路到天黑的,陷入黑夜的,愚昧的
benighted adj 1 :
overtaken by night or darkness ; "
benighted (
or nighted )
travelers hurrying toward home " [
synonym : {
benighted },
{
nighted }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym : {
benighted }, {
dark }]
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1 .
To involve in darkness ;
to shroud with the shades of night ;
to obscure . [
Archaic ]
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The clouds benight the sky . --
Garth .
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2 .
To overtake with night or darkness ,
especially before the end of a day '
s journey or task .
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Some virgin ,
sure , . . .
benighted in these woods .
--
Milton .
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3 .
To involve in moral darkness ,
or ignorance ;
to debar from intellectual light .
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Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? --
Heber .
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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "
benighted ":
ableptical ,
amaurotic ,
backward ,
bereft of light ,
blind ,
color -
blind ,
dark ,
dim -
sighted ,
empty -
headed ,
eyeless ,
hemeralopic ,
ignorant ,
illiterate ,
in darkness ,
in the dark ,
know -
nothing ,
mind -
blind ,
naive ,
night -
overtaken ,
nyctalopic ,
rayless ,
sightless ,
spiritually blind ,
stark blind ,
stone -
blind ,
undiscerning ,
uneducated ,
unenlightened ,
uninformed ,
uninstructed ,
unlettered ,
unobserving ,
unperceiving ,
unprogressive ,
unschooled ,
unseeing ,
untaught ,
untutored ,
visionless
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BENIGHTED Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of BENIGHTED is overtaken by darkness or night How to use benighted in a sentence
BENIGHTED Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com BENIGHTED definition: intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened See examples of benighted used in a sentence
BENIGHTED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary One is to listen to what people say about their own experience, and the other is to listen to philosophers and philosophically minded social scientists who are less benighted
Benighted - definition of benighted by The Free Dictionary benighted (bɪˈnaɪtɪd) adj 1 lacking cultural, moral, or intellectual enlightenment; ignorant 2 archaic overtaken by night
benighted - Wiktionary, the free dictionary benighted (comparative more benighted, superlative most benighted) (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc : caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination
benighted adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . . Definition of benighted adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
Benighted Definition Meaning | YourDictionary Benighted definition: Overtaken by night or darkness
BENIGHTED definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything
benighted | meaning of benighted in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary . . . benighted meaning, definition, what is benighted: having no knowledge or understanding: Learn more
Benighted Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary These benighted [= ignorant, unenlightened] souls people have so much to learn