Definition of "benighted" []

• Overtaken by night or darkness. (adjective)
• Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened. (adjective)

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• "Just keep surfing and ignore the smoke plumes rising up from certain benighted parts of those beautiful Cape cities."
• "A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most"
• "Now he kept a shop in what the Lords called the benighted section, far from the docks and the Lordshills."