[{"word":"benighted","phonetic":"/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/","phonetics":[{"text":"/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/benighted-uk.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88942661","license":{"name":"BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"}},{"text":"/bə-/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"(chiefly in passive) To overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To darken; to shroud or obscure.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Plunged into darkness.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":["unbenighted"]},{"definition":"Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":["unbenighted"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benight","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benighted"]}]