Benighted is valid Scrabble Word

Is benighted a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for BENIGHTED in dictionary:

VERB:

BENIGHT, to be overtaken by night

ADJECTIVE:

in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance
overtaken by darkness
ignorant or uncultured
overtaken by night or darkness
lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

overtaken by darkness or night

Words related to BENIGHTED

benight13 benightedly21 benightedness20

Words that contain BENIGHTED

benightedly21 unbenighted18 benightedness20 benightednesses22

How to use BENIGHTED in a sentence

As long as this market shall remain open there can be no hope for the civilization of benighted Africa.
Wherever, in any benighted region, this elementary proposition shall be henceforth denied or doubted, schools for adults are to be established, and the needful instruction given.
They were fine-looking fellows, and the good man pitied their benighted land.
They do not damn those poor benighted ones, but still hold out, in beautiful optimism, the hope that all those who do want to know the truth will find it! Another lady, Mrs.
She had assumed all along that she believed in Darwin and that people who did not believe in him were benighted.
Meanwhile, such was the benighted condition of Christendom, such its deplorable ignorance, that it cared nothing about the matter.
He wanted to wander in deserts of ice and see over the mountains, and discover what it is to be benighted on a precipice.
And she had thought that when benighted people knocked at a door it would presently open hospitably.
It was necessary to make the most of the lingering light, if I did not wish to be benighted in the woods.
In this benighted country it might lead into trouble.

So long was that fell, that they were nigh benighted ere they gained the topmost, or came to any pass.
It happened once that I was benighted in a garden, in company with a friend.
Has any housewife ever realised the alarming condition of cookery in the benighted generations before the invention of sugar? It is really almost too appalling to think about.
And in the heart of these benighted creatures a superstitious awe of it remains at all times.
In due time he entered into his missionary labours with indefatigable zeal, and proved to be the blessed means of converting the benighted Irish to the true faith.
A company of native missionaries was sent from Harpoot, in the summer of 1868, to the benighted region of Moosh.
The few benighted dissenters who still held out against the doctrine were looked upon as not worthy even of contempt.
Many years earlier the various churches had sent missionaries to that benighted land to reclaim its inhabitants from barbarism and heathenism.
Any one member of that benighted corps, taken as the subject of pruning and cultivating effort, would have occupied, I believed, the faithful labors of a lifetime.
Terrible must be the condition of a man benighted therein, especially in winter.
Seeking his prey, He pads his way Where Jane benighted goes, Where Jane benighted goes.
The Nation has been a great while benighted with several of these Antiluminaries.
A very holy man, as you might be, Doctor, was travelling on foot, and was benighted.
I wish indeed, I heartily wish, we could have seen one ray of comfort darting in upon his benighted mind, before he departed.
I went forth through the Middle West to spread the light among the benighted skirt trade.
She knew that he must be a poor benighted fellow just back from the trenches.
Think I want to be left alone in this benighted land, with a couple of million Austrians likely to swoop down on it at any minute? I guess not.
Let no one waste further sympathy over the poor benighted Eskimo of this Canadian North.
Jack told him he was a benighted traveller, when the monster bade Jack welcome, and led him into a room where he could pass the night.
Our histories contrasted the benighted condition of past ages with the high morality and general enlightenment of the present.
The priest accompanied him, and many enthusiastic soldiers of the Cross embarked to bear to the benighted souls beyond the sea the tidings of salvation.
Semlin might, of course, have been, like myself, a traveller benighted in Rotterdam, owing his recommendation to the hotel to a German acquaintance in the city.

Similar words containing BENIGHT without suffix ed

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