Word familyadjectivebenightedverbbenightenbenightnounbenighteningbenighterbenightingbenightment
be·night·ed /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/adjectiveadj literary
NOT KNOWhaving no knowledge or understanding 愚昧的,蒙昧无知的
—benightedlyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
benighted• We go chasing around this frozen, benighted countryside and discover nothing.• What would the editors think of my circling around these benighted fields for six months?• Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers.
Originbenighted
(1600-1700)benighted“trapped by the darkness of the night”((16-20 centuries)), from night