Definition for Benighted:

• 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"

Synonyms for Benighted:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • benighted.
  •dark (adjective)
  • unread,
  • unlettered.
  •ignorant (adjective)
  • unmindful,
  • untaught,
  • uninstructed,
  • cretinous,
  • shallower,
  • shallow,
  • unintellectual,
  • mindless,
  • unscholarly,
  • unknowledgeable,
  • blind to,
  • Unconversant,
  • misinformed,
  • unconscious,
  • birdbrained,
  • nescient,
  • witless,
  • apprenticed.
  •illiterate (adjective)
  • more catachrestic,
  • un grammatical,
  • most untutored,
  • more inerudite,
  • in erudite,
  • most catachrestic,
  • more solecistic,
  • un-grammatical,
  • in-erudite,
  • un-tutored,
  • un tutored,
  • most inerudite,
  • most solecistic,
  • more untutored,
  • Solecistic.
  •uneducated (adjective)
  • knownothing,
  • more ignoramus,
  • most know-nothing,
  • most ignoramus,
  • more knownothing,
  • know nothing,
  • un educated,
  • uneducated,
  • most lowbrow,
  • most knownothing,
  • un-refined,
  • un-educated,
  • more know-nothing,
  • empty headed,
  • un refined,
  • most know nothing,
  • more know nothing,
  • more lowbrow.
  •unenlightened (adjective)
  • uncultivated,
  • unlearned,
  • uncultured,
  • unschooled,
  • uncivilized,
  • simple.
  •uninstructed (adjective)
  • un instructed,
  • un-instructed.
  •unscholarly (adjective)
  • un scholarly,
  • un-scholarly,
  • most unstudious,
  • un studious,
  • more unstudious,
  • un-studious,
  • unstudious.

• n.

  •
  • empty-headed,
  • silly,
  • slow,
  • primitive,
  • simple-minded,
  • thick,
  • knowledge,
  • unintelligent,
  • idiotic,
  • brainless,
  • slow-witted,
  • backward.
  •benighted (noun)
  • unpunctual.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • stupid.

Paraphrases for Benighted:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    uninformed, ignorant.

Antonyms for Benighted:

• adj.

  • unenlightened
    learned.
  • Other antonyms:
    educated, brilliant, highbrow, trained, sophisticated, experienced, literate, well-read, lettered, well-informed, intellectual, polymath, acquainted, punctual, erudite, knowledgeable, expert, schooled, intelligent, cultured, aware, cultivated, scholarly, smart.

Benighted Sentence Examples:

• Their introduction into this land may have been one of the inscrutable ways of Providence to confer blessings upon that race - it may have been decreed that they shall be the means of conveying to the minds of their benighted countrymen, the blessing of religious and civil liberty.

• When nothing earthly appears in the understanding, but all its animal and worldly wisdom is swallowed up in faith; then the divine light arises, darting light and glory through the benighted soul.