benighted
9.9
You are outside when night falls and you have no light
- adjective
- /bɪˈnaɪtɪd/
:
atrapado en la oscuridad
- However, since the hour grows late, I should seek them out, lest I be benighted in the wood and forced to eat nuts for my dinner.
Examples
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One warm day, I thought, one warm day in this whole frozen, benighted winter, and this has to happen.
Fiction book (1994) -
"If we're benighted out here and we can find anything that'll burn, we can at least arrange the venison.
Fiction book (2000) -
My men and I are benighted in this blizzard, and we need shelter.
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We found ourselves like a benighted stranger, following false guides, until he was surrounded on every side with fire and water.
Synonyms
1
9.9
In darkness after night falls
is used specifically for travel or outdoor situations
How Dark
Surface Forms
benighted positive
Morphology
Etymology
Benighted comes from be- and night, and it originally meant 'caught by night' or taken by darkness. So it describes people who are literally caught by the dark while travelling.