| 释义 |
Adjective: benighted bi'nItid- Overtaken by night or darkness
"benighted travellers hurrying toward home"
- nighted - Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
"this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"
- dark
Verb: benight- Overtake with darkness or night
- Envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
"The benighted peoples of this area" - Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
- bedim [archaic]
See also: unenlightened, unpunctual Type of: darken, enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm [archaic], wrap Encyclopedia: Benighted |