benightedness

be·night·ed (b

-n

adj.

1. Overtaken by night or darkness.

2. Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened.

be·nighted·ly adv.

be·nighted·ness n.

benighted [bɪˈnaɪtɪd]

adj

1. lacking cultural, moral, or intellectual enlightenment; ignorant

2. Archaic overtaken by night

benightedly adv

benightedness n

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Adj.	1.	benighted - overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home" nighted unpunctual - not punctual; after the appointed time
	2.	benighted - 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" dark unenlightened - not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order"

benighted

adjective uncivilized, crude, primitive, backward, uncultivated, unenlightened the terrible circumstances of that benighted country

Translations

benighted [bɪˈnaɪtɪd] ADJ (liter) (fig) → ignorante

benighted [bɪˈnaɪtɪd] adj (literary)

(= ignorant) [person] → ignorant(e)

(= unfortunate) → maudit(e)

benighted

adj

(fig) person → unbedarft; country → gottverlassen; policy etc → hirnrissig

(lit) → von der Dunkelheit or Nacht überfallen or überrascht

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There is the hope among the Palestinians, that a US leader, with senator Obama''s ethnic background,can easier relate to the Palestinian struggle, understand the hardship,which has its roots in benightedness and in willful ignorance.

Senator Barack Obama to Mahmoud Abbas Basic Steps on the Ground - ... by Hiyam Noir / Politics community

Because the exchange continues with Wright informing the white journalist that her black roommate straightens her hair simply because she is self-loathing (Color Curtain 187), the interaction could be read as Wright's attempt to represent the American racial allegory, which highlights white American benightedness with respect to black Americans.

Black is a region: segregation and American literary regionalism in ... by Dunbar, Eve / African American Review

What Bagehot called the "party-spirit" shapes their every utterance and makes of their every narrative a fable of moral combat in which the forces of enlightenment (the Democratic Party) and the forces of benightedness (the Republican Party) struggle for ascendency.

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1970-1950 by Kramer, Hilton / New Criterion

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