benighted
adjective
, bē-\
Definition of benighted
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Synonyms & Antonyms for benighted
Synonyms
analphabetic, dark, ignorant, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored
Antonyms
educated, knowledgeable, lettered, literate, schooled, well-informed, well-read
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Examples of benighted in a Sentence
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No graves will go unfilled and no enmities will be buried simply because the Royal & Ancient has seen fit to bring the Open to this benighted little province. — Eamon Lynch, azcentral, "Open Championship at Portrush may be the only thing Northern Ireland can agree on," 15 July 2019 Theories abound as to why the Florida Man occupies a benighted place in modern America mythology. — Chris Wilson, Time, "Florida Man or Not Florida Man? Guess Which of These Stories Happened in Florida," 26 June 2019 What followed was a numbing, exasperating experience, akin to waking up in a subterranean, benighted world. — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, "The numbing experience of living through Africa’s growing internet shutdowns," 24 June 2019 Detectives Hays and West are, of course—as is ever the case in police shows—regularly frustrated by department superiors, whose benighted ideas about crime-solving carry the day. — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, "‘True Detective’ Review: Grim, Gripping Entertainment," 10 Jan. 2019 Wiring benighted countries with not-the-latest technology is a very good business for Ericsson—and also the right thing to do. — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, "Data Sheet—How Verizon's New CEO Wants to Do Good, Not Just Do Well," 11 June 2018 The enormous yellow menu offers both milchig and fleishig, dairy and meat, but in my opinion only tourists and the benighted opt for meat. — David Remnick, Bon Appetit, "The Only Restaurant on the Upper West Side That Hasn’t Been Bettered Anywhere on Earth," 6 June 2018 Against the benighted church Galileo labored, alongside the other great thinkers of the sixteenth century who gave rise to our rational modern age. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Did Math Kill God?," 27 Apr. 2018 With intricacy and humor, Van der Vliet Oloomi relays Zebra’s brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges. — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, "Brainy and Benighted, Lost in the Books of Bolaño and Borges," 29 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'benighted.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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benighted
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