Definitions from Wiktionary (benighted)
▸ adjective: (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
▸ adjective: (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
▸ adjective: (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
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▸ adjective: (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
▸ adjective: (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
▸ adjective: (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.
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nighted,
dark,
unenlightened,
unpunctual,
night-blind,
nightblind,
night blind,
darkened,
nightwandering,
blindful,
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