English Dictionary

benighted

IPA（発音記号）

/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/

形容詞

廃用 詩語 比喩的用法

(obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination. / (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.

日本語の意味

（主に旅人が目的地に到達する前に、突然の夜の到来により外に置き去りにされるような状態を、詩的または古風な表現で）夜に襲われた、あるいは取り残された状態を示す。 / 暗闇に落とされた、または暗闇に包まれた状態を意味する。

We hurried along the coastal road, benighted and anxious, as storm clouds swallowed the last of the light.

私たちは海岸沿いの道を急いだ。夜に追われて不安になりながら、嵐雲が最後の光を飲み込んでいった。

意味（1）

(obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.

The Porter anſwered, This Man is in a Journey from the City of Deſtruction to Mount Zion, but being weary, and benighted, he asked me if he might lodge here to night; ſo I told him I would call for thee, who after diſcourſe had with him, mayeſt do as ſeemeth thee good, even according to the Law of the Houſe.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Plunged into darkness.

Rob the Spheare of lines vnited, / Make a ſuddaine voide in nature: / Force the day to be benighted, / Reaue the cauſe of time and creature.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.

[I]t would be difficult to name any writers who have contributed so much to promote the progress of civilization as these illustrious authors—these friends of human nature—these kind instructers of human errors and frailties—these benevolent spirits, who held up the torch of science to a benighted world.

意味（4）

(figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

[O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead stand, not knowing what to do or say; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for new Nuntio's from Christ, to assoil these benighted questions, and to give new Orders for new Churches.

more benighted （ comparative ）

most benighted （ superlative ）