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Meaning of benighted

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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