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单词 benighted
释义
benighted
adjective
literary
uk
/bɪˈnaɪ.tɪd/us
/bɪˈnaɪ.t̬ɪd/
withoutknowledgeormorals:
愚昧的，无知的
Some of the earlyexplorersthoughtof thelocalpeopleas benightedsavageswho could beexploited.一些早期的开发者认为当地人愚昧无知未开化，完全可以任由他们剥削。
Synonyms
cluelessinformal
ignorant
illiterate
unenlightened
uninformed
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unaware
  • be in the darkidiom
  • be on another planetidiom
  • blind spot
  • blindly
  • blindness
  • blissful
  • foggy
  • Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knowsidiom
  • in blissful ignoranceidiom
  • innumeracy
  • innumerate
  • insensate
  • lost
  • misunderstand
  • stump
  • unacquainted
  • unattuned
  • unawakened
  • unaware
  • unawareness
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(Definition ofbenightedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbenighted

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Even donniciuole, he says, were usually not sobenighted.
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Or the self he would be were he not sobenighted.
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Many joined with the thought of influencing, in some ways, the 'benighted' peoples of the ancestral homeland.
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When he does so, he is vowing not only to her, but to the freedom he yearns for and believes in as a possible outcome for hisbenightedlife.
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Butbenightedpeople do believe them.
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One is to listen to what people say about their own experience, and the other is to listen to philosophers and philosophically minded social scientists who are lessbenighted.
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They will save the poorbenightedpublic from that by resisting this and that amendment because of information overload.
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There is the bringing about of dereliction which, in most of thosebenightedtowns, has been unvarying for a decade or more.
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We had an example of this kind ofbenightedpolicy the other night.
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Somebenightedconstituents think it is the name of a vegetable.
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In this time of stress there arebenighteddistricts, suffering heavily from the toll of unemployment and left in a very parlous state.
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We must return prosperity and peace to thatbenightedcountry.
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I want to say a word on behalf of the poor,benightedsheep farmers.
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Someone had to speak for poor,benightedclause 29.
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If nothing else, we owe that to the people of thatbenightedcountry.
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