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单词 benighted
释义
Benighted
vverb.emotionovertake with darkness or night
Hypernyms:overcome overpower overtake overwhelm sweep over whelm
Inherited Hypernyms:benightoverwhelmarousemake
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody
vverb.contactenvelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
Examples:
  • The benighted peoples of this area
Hypernyms:enclose enfold envelop enwrap wrap
Inherited Hypernyms:benightenvelopcover
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody
vverb.changemake darker and difficult to perceive by sight
Synset:bedim benight
Hypernyms:darken
Inherited Hypernyms:benightdarkenchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
adj satadj.allovertaken by night or darkness
Synset:nighted
Examples:
  • benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
Antonyms:punctual
Inherited Hypernyms:benighted
Similar to:unpunctual
adj satadj.alllacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Synset:dark
Examples:
  • this benighted country
  • benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
  • the dark ages
  • a dark age in the history of education
Antonyms:enlightened
Derivationally Related Form:darknessdark
Inherited Hypernyms:benighted
Similar to:unenlightened
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