Thesaurus / benighted
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After disembarking, the 26-year-old was led away for the crime of reporting on political opposition—exactly the sort of activity essential to the functioning of a democracy, should one ever occur in his benighted homeland.
WHY 2021 WAS A WATERSHED YEAR FOR PRESS FREEDOMSKARL VICKDECEMBER 30, 2021TIMEIsrael looms large here as a malevolent actor that manipulated the benighted Americans into sharing its hostility toward Iran.
AMERICA AND IRAN, FROM FASCINATION TO ANTAGONISMRAY TAKEYHFEBRUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOne must take a sup of hot liquor when benighted in such freezing snow as this.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, FOURTH SERIESMRS. HENRY WOODBy some direct and primitively human way her benighted mind had reached its determination.
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCANAll this the benighted wanderers observed as they continued to approach cautiously on tiptoe.
MARTIN RATTLERR.M. BALLANTYNEA farmer returning homeward to the parish of Malew from Peel was benighted and lost his way among the mountains.
THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALESEDWIN SIDNEY HARTLANDThe week in which during all the years of many and long ages benighted people sacrificed their Christs to Shylock gods.
COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISMWILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWNIsn't it a privilege to see his blessed eyes rolling all sorts of ways; and don't they speak wolumes to the poor benighted sinner?
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUSBut tell me, Jeanne, how in the world did you come down here in this benighted country?
A DAUGHTER OF THE UNIONLUCY FOSTER MADISONThey took care of the benighted wanderers, and the farmer drove them back to the hotel the next morning in his own waggon.
MAGNUM BONUMCHARLOTTE M. YONGEWORDS RELATED TO BENIGHTED
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
- apprenticed
- benighted
- birdbrained
- blind to
- cretinous
- dense
- green
- illiterate
- imbecilic
- in the dark
- inexperienced
- innocent
- insensible
- mindless
- misinformed
- moronic
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- obtuse
- shallow
- thick
- unconscious
- unconversant
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- unintellectual
- unknowledgeable
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unmindful
- unread
- unschooled
- unstudious
- unsuspecting
- untaught
- untrained
- unwitting
- witless
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