benighted

Synonyms

dark, ignorant, illiterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored;

Antonyms

educated, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, schooled, well-informed, well-read;

Near Antonyms

brilliant, intelligent, smart;

experienced, expert, trained;

erudite, learned, scholarly;

cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual;

sophisticated;

acquainted, aware, familiar;

Related Words

functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable;

artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured;

callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve);

unsophisticated;

raw, unskilled, untrained;

brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless;

foolish, senseless, silly;