Explore Benighted through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like dark or unenlightened. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Benighted in a sentence
Benighted meaning
- 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.
Synonyms of Benighted
Using Benighted
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: nighted, unpunctual, dark, unenlightened.
- In the example corpus, benighted often appears in combinations such as: benighted country, our benighted.
Context around Benighted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Benighted
- In this selection, "benighted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, country, mullah and big stand out and add context to how "benighted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a more benighted time the and again a benighted country. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "benighted" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with benighted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Can we not have a single admirable civic figure for our benighted country to look to? (16 words)
Not that the benighted, mullah-controlled Iranian regime is comprised of anything which resembles white hats. (16 words)
So, after a bruising year, to which party can a benighted Big Tech CEO turn for support? (17 words)
In recent days, women have been banned from attending university or working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs), many of them providing crucial, life-saving support to the most vulnerable in what is becoming, again, a benighted country. (37 words)
Although we may find concerns about depicting lesbianism or sex work on stage as signs of a more benighted time, the treatment of Sholem Asch provides a cautionary tale that speaks to our own age. (35 words)
Only those who favor the exploitation of a servile coloured race for greed of gain, and a few professional economists and benighted theologians, are now heard in serious criticism of a White Australia; but. (34 words)
Can we not have a single admirable civic figure for our benighted country to look to? (16 words)
So, after a bruising year, to which party can a benighted Big Tech CEO turn for support? (17 words)
Example sentences (9)
Although we may find concerns about depicting lesbianism or sex work on stage as signs of a more benighted time, the treatment of Sholem Asch provides a cautionary tale that speaks to our own age.
In recent days, women have been banned from attending university or working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs), many of them providing crucial, life-saving support to the most vulnerable in what is becoming, again, a benighted country.
Mostly, our sense of inferiority emanated from New York, the big city that disparaged what it considered its benighted country cousin.
Can we not have a single admirable civic figure for our benighted country to look to?
Not that the benighted, mullah-controlled Iranian regime is comprised of anything which resembles white hats.
So, after a bruising year, to which party can a benighted Big Tech CEO turn for support?
If you are one of those with hearing issues related to hard surfaces – and you have my sympathies; my late mother was just so benighted – Tozi will not make you happy.
My, my, what a cornucopia of creeps our benighted country has dished up for us this holiday season.
Only those who favor the exploitation of a servile coloured race for greed of gain, and a few professional economists and benighted theologians, are now heard in serious criticism of a White Australia; but.
Common combinations with benighted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: