English-Thai Dictionary

benighted

ADJ ซึ่ง ปราศจาก ความเข้าใจ  sueng-prad-sa-jak-khwam-khao-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BENIGHT

v.t.[be and night. ] To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night. The clouds benight the sky.
1. To overtake with night; as a benighted traveler.
2. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light; as benighted nations, or heathen.

 

BENIGHTED

pp. Involved in darkness, physical or moral; overtaken by the night.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BENIGHT

Be *night ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benighted; p. pr. & vb. n.Benighting.]

 

1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic ] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

 

2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task. Some virgin, sure, ... benighted in these woods. Milton.

 

3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light. Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny Heber.

 

BENIGHTMENT

BENIGHTMENT Be *night "ment, n.

 

Defn: The condition of being benighted.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

benighted

be night ed |biˈnītid bəˈnaɪdɪd | ▶adjective 1 in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity: they saw themselves as bringers of culture to poor benighted peoples. 2 overtaken by darkness: a storm developed and we were forced to wait benighted near the summit. DERIVATIVES be night ed ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. ( sense 2 ): past participle of archaic benight ‘cover in the darkness of night, obscure ’ (see be-, night ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

benighted

be |night ¦ed |bɪˈnʌɪtɪd | ▶adjective 1 in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance: they saw themselves as bringers of culture to poor benighted peoples. 2 overtaken by darkness: a storm developed and we were forced to wait benighted near the summit. DERIVATIVES benightedness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in sense 2 ): past participle of archaic benight ‘cover in the darkness of night, obscure ’ (see be-, night ).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

benighted

benighted adjective he knew what was best for the benighted peasant: ignorant, unenlightened, uneducated, unschooled, untutored, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unscholarly, unread, uninformed, backward, simple; primitive, uncivilized, unsophisticated, unrefined, uncouth, unpolished, uncultured, philistine, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, savage, crude, coarse, rough, vulgar, gross; informal yobbish; literary nescient; archaic rude. ANTONYMS enlightened.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

benighted

be night ed /bɪnáɪtɪd /形容詞 1 ｟文 ｠無知な, 理解力のない ; 〈国 時代などが 〉暗愚な, 未開の .2 ｟古 ｠〈旅人が 〉行き暮れた ; 〈町などが 〉やみに包まれた .～ly 副詞