as in ignorant
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading
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as in ignorance
the state of being unaware or uninformed
takes perverse pride in his benightedness regarding popular culture
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Recent Examples of benighted
Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and noteworthy, correction to its scientifically benighted treatment of race.
—Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024
Israel is the only bastion in this benighted region preventing Iran from taking control through its terrorist proxies.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
Many critics judge Elvis’s refusal to abandon a rural, working-class culture as backward and benighted, tempering his artistic success.
—Michael T. Bertrand, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
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Adjective
And this is just a small sampling of the kind of far-right legal reasoning that routinely escapes this benighted court.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
In its 50th anniversary year, the storied fantasy role-playing game is now making a long-overdue, and noteworthy, correction to its scientifically benighted treatment of race.
—Steven Dashiell, Scientific American, 31 July 2024
Israel is the only bastion in this benighted region preventing Iran from taking control through its terrorist proxies.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
Many critics judge Elvis’s refusal to abandon a rural, working-class culture as backward and benighted, tempering his artistic success.
—Michael T. Bertrand, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for benighted
Adjective
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Simone, still at the hospital, remains blissfully ignorant of Kiki’s vengeful turn.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Conservative media, once a proud home to voices like Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, and Bill Kristol, now platforms ignorant Trump sycophants who have no use for conservative principles — or principles of any kind.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
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But this also speaks to the ignorance of those doing the projecting, who disregarded (in the case of Documenta 15) the complexities and nuances of Indonesian art, cultural policy, and history over the past thirty years.—
Diedrich Diederichsen,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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One of the key themes of Part II is the fact that everyone is only seeing things from their perspective; all these characters who are suffering loss and passing that suffering on to others are doing so in ignorance.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
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“Benighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benighted. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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