1. Lacking enlightenment, knowledge or culture
   "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition";
   - dark
    
2. Overtaken by night or darkness
   "benighted travellers hurrying toward home";
   - nighted

1. Overtake with darkness or night
   "The travellers were benighted in the forest"
    
2. Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
   "The benighted peoples of this area"
    
3. Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
   "The fog benighted the landscape";
   - bedim [archaic]

See also: unenlightened, unpunctual

Type of: darken, enclose, enfold, engulf, envelop, enwrap, ingulf [archaic], overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, wrap

Encyclopedia: Benighted