benighted

benighted
    adj 1: overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted)
           travelers hurrying toward home" [syn: {benighted},
           {nighted}]
    2: 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" [syn: {benighted}, {dark}]
    

benight \be*night"\ (b[-e]*n[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Benighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Benighting}.]
   1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of
      night; to obscure. [Archaic]
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            The clouds benight the sky.           --Garth.
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   2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the
      end of a day's journey or task.
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            Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from
      intellectual light.
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            Shall we to men benighted
            The lamp of life deny ?               --Heber.
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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "benighted":
      ableptical, amaurotic, backward, bereft of light, blind,
      color-blind, dark, dim-sighted, empty-headed, eyeless, hemeralopic,
      ignorant, illiterate, in darkness, in the dark, know-nothing,
      mind-blind, naive, night-overtaken, nyctalopic, rayless, sightless,
      spiritually blind, stark blind, stone-blind, undiscerning,
      uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninstructed, unlettered,
      unobserving, unperceiving, unprogressive, unschooled, unseeing,
      untaught, untutored, visionless