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What is the adjective for benightened?

What's the adjective for benightened? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs benight and benighten which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

benighted
  1. plunged into darkness
  2. overtaken by night
  3. lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.”
      “I smiled politely at the poor, benighted lout and continued on, serenaded on my way by an ever-fainter string of obscenities sung in the dulcet tones of his native land.”
benighting
benightened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of benighten
benightening
  1. present participle of benighten
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