Usually means: Ignorant; intellectually or morally darkened.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word benighted:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. benighted: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. benighted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benighted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. benighted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. benighted: Vocabulary.com
  6. Benighted, benighted: Wordnik
  7. benighted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. benighted: Wiktionary
  9. benighted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. benighted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. benighted: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Benighted, benighted: Dictionary.com
  13. benighted: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Benighted (Band), Benighted (album), Benighted (disambiguation), Benighted (novel), Benighted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Benighted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. benighted: Rhymezone
  17. Benighted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. benighted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. benighted: Free Dictionary
  20. benighted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. benighted: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Benighted (band), benighted: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. benighted: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Benighted: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See benightedly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
adjective:  (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
adjective:  (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
adjective:  (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

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