benighted Definition
be·nighted (bē nīt′id, bi-)
benighted Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near benighted
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- ‹ Bengalese
- ‹ Bengal light
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