Benighted vs Tenebrose - What's the difference?
benighted | tenebrose |
plunged into darkness
overtaken by night
* 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened
(label)(benight)
Dark; tenebrous.
(figuratively) obscure; obtuse; incomprehensible.
(figuratively) morally, culturally or mentally benighted; backward; uncivilized.
(figuratively) gloomy.
As adjectives the difference between benighted and tenebrose
is that benighted is plunged into darkness while tenebrose is dark; tenebrous.As a verb benighted
is (label)(benight).benighted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.