Benighted
Benighted adjective - Lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books.
Usage example: the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- green and benighted
- green and innocent
- unsophisticated and benighted
- unsophisticated and innocent
- naive and benighted
- naive and innocent
- ignorant and benighted
- ignorant and innocent
- simple and benighted
- simple and innocent
- inexperienced and benighted
- inexperienced and innocent
- unconscious and benighted
- unconscious and innocent
Both words in one sentence
- On the one hand DORLA in Kit Whitfield's Benighted uses police state tactics and functionally, if not officially, operates on a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality.
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