benighted
(be-night-ed)
3 syllables
Definition
adjective. existing in a state of moral cultural or intellectual darkness; unenlightened.
Example Sentence
The play highlighted the benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hear It! Say It! Write It!
benighted
Rhymes
- blighted
- cited
- knighted
- lighted
- righted
- sighted
- sited
- slighted
- spited
- whited
- benighted
- delighted
- excited
- ignited
- incited
- indicted
- indited
- invited
- recited
- shortsighted
- united
- disinvited
- reignited
- reinvited
- reunited
- unindicted
- uninvited
- unrequited
- overexcited