Benign vs Benighted - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between benign and benighted

is that benign is kind; gentle; mild while benighted is plunged into darkness.

past tense of benight.

(en-adj)

Kind; gentle; mild.

* (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable

* not harmful to the environment: [in combination] an ozone-benign refrigerant.

(medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.

* malign * malignant

* benignly * benignant * benignity * benign neglect * benign tumor

(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

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