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Rarebenighted
The correct spelling is benighted.
How to pronounce benighted
/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
verbIPA: /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
Say it like: Ben-ite-d
The correct spelling is benighted. (chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
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Meanings
verb
- 1.(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
- 2.To darken; to shroud or obscure.
- 3.To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
adjective
- 1.Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
- 2.Plunged into darkness.
- 3.Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
- 4.Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
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