• adj.
    ⦿lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
    lexical concept
  • a dark age in the history of education
  • benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
  • the dark ages
  • this benighted country

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:benighted
  2. enl:dark
wn:interlingual indexili:i4851

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • benighteddark
  • benighted