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Benighted vs Nescient - What's the difference?

benighted | nescient |

As adjectives the difference between benighted and nescient

is that benighted is plunged into darkness while nescient is ignorant, unlearned.

As a verb benighted

is past tense of benight.

As a noun nescient is

an ignorant person.

benighted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • plunged into darkness
  • overtaken by night
  • * 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
    • And lonely as it is, that loneliness
    Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
    A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
    With no expression, nothing to express.
  • lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (label)(benight)

    • Anagrams

    *

    nescient

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an ignorant person
  • an unbeliever

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • ignorant, unlearned
  • unbelieving

    • Related terms

    * nescience ----