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benighted adj

(obsolete) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination. (obsolete) Plunged into darkness. (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous. (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

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