benighted
Use Benighted in a sentence
tɪd adjective
1.
intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
2.
overtaken by darkness or night.
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benighted (bɪˈnaɪtɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking cultural, moral, or intellectual enlightenment; ignorant |
| 2. | archaic overtaken by night |
| be'nightedly | |
| —adv | |
| be'nightedness | |
| —n | |
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Benighted
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example sentences
Efforts to clean up the benighted coast have been hindered by poor weather.
Inequality is indeed a frequent side-effect of injustice, but it is benighted to fixate on symptoms to the neglect of the disease.
And, gradually, there dawn- ed upon his benighted spirit a dim perception of the grandeur of this created universe.
Such treats are lost on visitors from the benighted lands with no sauna culture.
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