Synonyms and Antonyms of benighted
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
- the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading
analphabetic, dark, ignorant, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored
functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable
artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured
callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve)
unsophisticated
raw, unskilled, untrained
brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless
foolish, senseless, silly
brilliant, intelligent, smart
experienced, expert, trained
erudite, learned, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly
cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual
sophisticated
acquainted, aware, familiar
