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 }]
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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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