What Does the Word Benightedness Meaning?

1 : overtaken by darkness or night Benighted travellers … have seen his midnight candle glimmering.— W. B. Yeats. 2 : existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened spreading their message among these poor benighted people a strange, benighted country.

How do you use benighted in a sentence?

Examples of 'benighted' in a sentence benighted
  1. This country has always abandoned its benighted poor.
  2. Because we are foolish and benighted and live in utter darkness. ...
  3. He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls. ...
  4. It was a benighted place.

How do you remember benighted?

One way to remember what benighted means is to think of a person "being nighted" or, put into the dark. A benighted person is in the dark about things: they don't know because they can't see.

Marcus Vance

Marcus Vance

Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy Researcher

Marcus Vance is a cybersecurity auditor and technology writer dedicated to educating the public about online safety, data privacy regulations, enterprise security, and emerging cyber threats.