Crossword-Solution: BENIGHTED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Benighted | imp. & p. p. | of Benight |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BENIGHTED | anagram | GETBEHIND |
We have 29 clues for the answer “BENIGHTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Overtaken by dark | 1 answer |
| OVERTAKEN by night | 1 answer |
| the dark ages | 2 answers |
| A DARK AGE IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION | 11 answers |
| blinded | 15 answers |
| wantwit | 17 answers |
| lackwit | 20 answers |
| Pinhead | 31 answers |
| Illiterate | 33 answers |
| Dimwit | 41 answers |
| untutored | 43 answers |
| untaught | 54 answers |
| unlettered | 57 answers |
| uneducated | 59 answers |
| ignoramus | 67 answers |
| Dunce | 68 answers |
| dusky | 73 answers |
| Late | 76 answers |
| Ignorant | 76 answers |
| Unenlightened | 78 answers |
| Dolt | 78 answers |
| Backward | 80 answers |
| Grey ____ | 80 answers |
| shallow | 80 answers |
| Dummy | 81 answers |
| Gray | 86 answers |
| In the Dark | 86 answers |
| ignorance | 88 answers |
| Dope | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BENIGHTED (5)
The whole peaceful and quiet scene lay glimmering in twilight before the eyes of the traveller, giving him good assurance of lodging for the night; since it was a special duty of those hermits who dwelt in the woods, to exercise hospitality towards benighted or bewildered passengers.
Europeans will better understand his point of view than Americans, poor, benighted provincials, who are denied a true appreciation of caste and of the fact that “the king can do no wrong.” He did not even have to argue the point that she would be much happier amidst the luxuries of a London apartment, fortified as she would be by both his love and his bank account, than lawfully wed to such a one as her social position warranted.
Pooh! Stuff! Enough of this trifling! The time is short, and much remains to be done before you are fit to proclaim the Gospel of Three Dimensions to your blind benighted countrymen in Flatland.
When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had, he said, in a dialect that was just intelligible: “How goes it, Jacques?” “All well, Jacques.” “Touch then!” They joined hands, and the man sat down on the heap of stones.
Come, my lord, arise, and drink the monk's wine of morning, and then if ye must need ride, ride betimes, and ride hard; for the Wood Perilous beginneth presently as ye wend your ways; and it were well for thee to reach the Burg of the Four Friths ere thou be benighted.
Quotes with BENIGHTED (3)
She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cy…
We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?
Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive "spirituality" probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2009).