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# benighted

«benighted» in Mova's school dictionary: **caught out in the dark, when night comes before you reach…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) caught out in the dark, when night comes before you reach home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benighted/#m1)

2) (old use) lacking knowledge or understanding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benighted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a traveller is benighted in the forest and asks a hut-owner for shelter

### examples

- I was benighted in the forest and had nowhere to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benighted/#x1)
- The poor tailor was benighted and begged for a place in the hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benighted/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «benighted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benighted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.