benighted

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. overtaken by night or darkness
- benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
• Syn:
nighted
• Similar to:
unpunctual
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
• Syn:
dark
• Similar to:
unenlightened
• Derivationally related forms:
dark (for: dark), darkness (for: dark)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dark, nighted