benighted

English

Adjective

benighted (comparative more benighted, superlative most benighted)

1. plunged into darkness
2. overtaken by night
   • 1936, Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

     And lonely as it is, that loneliness

     Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

     A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

     With no expression, nothing to express.

3. lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened

Verb

benighted

1. Simple past tense and past participle of benight.

Anagrams

• get behind