benighted

adjective4

1. •
   (figurative) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.

   • A radiant morn of light and happiness then dawned upon this benighted land, yielding the joyous earnest of a future resplendent day. — 1790
2. •
   (literary, no longer used) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.

   • The Moon (that roves like thee) shou'd fail, / The Stars benighted prove, / The Sun (that burns like me) shou'd cease / To shine, ere thou to love? — 1739
3. •
   (no longer used) 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. — 1600
4. •
   (figurative, no longer used) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.