benighted
adjective
be·night·ed
bi-ˈnī-təd
bē-
1
: overtaken by darkness or night
Benighted travellers … have seen his midnight candle glimmering.—W. B. Yeats
2
: existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened
spreading their message among these poor benighted people
a strange, benighted country
benightedly
adverb
benightedness
noun
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