different between benighted vs tenebrose

English

Etymology

From benight +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??na?t?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??na?t?d/, /b?-/, [-??d]
• Homophone: beknighted
• Hyphenation: be?night?ed

Adjective

benighted (comparative more benighted, superlative most benighted)

1. (obsolete or poetic) Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
2. (obsolete) Plunged into darkness.
3. (figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.

   Antonym: unbenighted
4. (figuratively, obsolete) Difficult to understand; abstruse, obscure.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with beknighted (“made a knight”).

Derived terms

• benightedly
• benightedness
• unbenighted

Translations

Verb

benighted

1. simple past tense and past participle of benight

References

Anagrams

• benedight, get behind

English

Etymology

From Latin tenebr?sus, from tenebra (“darkness”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?n?b???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?n?b?o?s/

Adjective

tenebrose (comparative more tenebrose, superlative most tenebrose)

1. Dark; tenebrous.
2. (figuratively) obscure; obtuse; incomprehensible.
3. (figuratively) morally, culturally or mentally benighted; backward; uncivilized.
4. (figuratively) gloomy.

See also

• tenebrous

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “tenebrose”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• beerstone

Italian

Adjective

tenebrose

1. feminine plural of tenebroso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /te.ne?bro?.se/, [t??n??b?o?s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te.ne?bro.se/, [t??n??b???s??]

Adjective

tenebr?se

1. vocative masculine singular of tenebr?sus

References

• tenebrose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press