benighted

Modifying Another Word

• so: Maybe the early academic critics who rated this appeal rather low were not so benighted after all.
• often: The types of incident include: Searches for walkers missing or overdue, often benighted with no flashlight.

Modifies a noun

• soul: The enemy of souls guards vigilantly to prevent the slightest ray from falling into the benighted soul.
• land: They will be at it until darkness so thank your lucky stars you were not born in this benighted land.
• country: This is his solution to the educational disaster in his own benighted country.
• people: H31 advocates the reunification of Korea as one nation, so rescuing the benighted people of North Korea.
• savage: In 19th-century boys ' yarns, Rider Haggard's heroes would use an exactly forecast eclipse to confound ( literally ) benighted savages.
• native: Firstly there is the belief that the Empire was an unalloyed blessing on the otherwise benighted natives.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Search Hart Crag 8th November at 17.30 Two people became benighted on Hart Crag.
• get: Completed route and Walk Off then got benighted trying to find way down to Base.

Preposition: in

weather: They turned up at Seathwaite at 0645 hrs having been benighted in bad weather.