Definition of benighted
1
: overtaken by darkness or night
Benighted travellers … have seen his midnight candle glimmering.— W. B. Yeats
2
: existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened
spreading their message among these poor benighted people a strange, benighted country
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The first known use of benighted was in the 15th century
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