BENIGHTED
/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
16
Scrabble
18
WWF
B(3) E(1) N(1) I(1) G(2) H(4) T(1) E(1) D(2)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
verb
- (chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
- To darken; to shroud or obscure.
- To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
adjective
- Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
- Plunged into darkness.
- Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
Source: Wiktionary
