benighted : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: benighted	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for benighted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
benighted adj overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home" Synonym(s): benighted, nighted lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education" Synonym(s): benighted, dark
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Benight \Benight"\ (b[esl]n[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Benighting}.] 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. --Garth. 2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. --Milton. 3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? --Heber.