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How to pronounce “benighted”
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Pronunciation guide for benighted
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of benighted with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Independent Diplomat - Despatches from an Unaccountable Elite
long before the US, UK invaded that benighted country.
- Definition summary
- (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
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How to pronounce benighted
Independent Diplomat - Despatches from an Unaccountable Elite
long before the US, UK invaded that benighted country.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “benighted”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
- (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
- (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
- (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of benight
Practice Nearby Words
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