benighted

/bɪnˈa‍ɪtɪd/

/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/

[adjective]

benighted

[ADJECTIVE]

lacking in intellect, culture, knowledge, or morals

synonyms : dark

overtaken by night or darkness

synonyms : nighted

Examples

1. Every minute of every day presents us with untold options for filling our minds with the mania, exploits, disasters, furies, reversals, ambitions, triumphs, insanity and cataclysms of strangers around our benighted planet.

2. We get better too at understanding statistics: that this is normal for a benighted group of us.

3. The so-called narcissist is simply a benighted soul who has not had a chance to be inordinately and unreasonably admired at the start.

4. So, all notions that the British were trying to do their colonial enterprise out of enlightened despotism to try and bring the benefits of colonialism and civilisation to the benighted.