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benighted

English

  1. 🔊 lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
    “this benighted country”
  2. 🔊 overtaken by night or darkness
    “benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home”

Similar words

dark nighted ableptical amaurotic backward bereft of light blind color-blind dark dim-sighted empty-headed eyeless hemeralopic ignorant illiterate in darkness in the dark know-nothing mind-blind naive night-overtaken nyctalopic rayless sightless