Antonyms for benighted
bɪˈnaɪ tɪdbe·night·ed

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1. benighted, nightedadjective

   overtaken by night or darkness

   "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"

   Antonyms:
   enlightened, punctual

   Synonyms:
   nighted, dark

2. benighted, darkadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   enlightened, punctual

   Synonyms:
   dreary, non-white, saturnine, sullen, dingy, drear, grim, sour, coloured, gloomy, morose, black, dismal, dark, sinister, moody, drab, dark-skinned, dour, obscure, blue, glum, glowering, nighted, sorry, disconsolate

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1. benightedadjective

   Synonyms:
   unenlightened, belated

How to use benighted in a sentence?

1. Marcel Proust:

   The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

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