单词 | benighted |
释义 | benighted From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbenightedbe‧night‧ed /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/ adjective literaryNOT KNOWhaving no knowledge or understanding —benightedly adverbExamples from the Corpusbenighted• We go chasing around this frozen, benighted countryside and discover nothing.• What would the editors think of my circling around these benighted fields for six months?• Between the world wars major unions suffered the searing experience of high unemployment which owed much to incompetent employers and benighted policy-makers.Origin benighted (1600-1700) benighted “trapped by the darkness of the night” ((16-20 centuries)), from night |
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