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benighted 音標拼音: [bɪn'ɑɪtɪd] a. 趕路到天黑的,陷入黑夜的,愚昧的 趕路到天黑的,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}] benight \ be* night"\ ( b[- e]* n[ imac] t"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Benighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Benighting}.] 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] The clouds benight the sky. -- Garth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day' s journey or task. [ 1913 Webster] Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. [ 1913 Webster] Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? -- Heber. [ 1913 Webster] 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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