Difference between Dark and Benighted

DARK vs BENIGHTED: NOUN

The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
An unilluminated area
Absence of light or illumination
An unenlightened state
Absence of moral or spiritual values
Absence of light.
A place having little or no light.
Night; nightfall.
A deep hue or color.
Pieces of laundry having a dark color.
The absence of light; darkness.
A dark place.
A dark hue; a dark spot or part.
A state of concealment; secrecy: as, things done in the dark.
An obscured or unenlightened state or condition; obscurity; a state of ignorance: as, I am still in the dark regarding his intentions.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
An obsolete form of darg.

Secret
Having skin rich in melanin pigments
Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.
Morally corrupt; vicious.
Evil in nature or effect; sinister.
Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture.
Unknown or concealed; mysterious.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak.
Sullen or threatening.
Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.
Served without milk or cream.
Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black.
Lacking brightness.
Having richness or depth.
Not giving performances; closed
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored
(used of color) having a dark hue
Marked by difficulty of style or expression
Showing a brooding ill humor
Causing dejection
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Lacking or having very little light.
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

Unenlightened, either mentally or spiritually; characterized by backwardness in learning, art, science, or religion; destitute of knowledge or culture; ignorant; uninstructed; rude: uncivilized: as, the dark places of the earth; the dark ages.
Blind; sightless.
To grow or become dark; darken.
Hence Concealed; secret; mysterious; inscrutable as, keep it dark.
Obscure; not easily perceived or understood; difficult to interpret or explain: as, a dark saying; a dark passage in an author.
Threatening; frowning; gloomy; morose: as, a dark scowl.
Characterized by or producing gloom; dreary; cheerless: as, a dark time in the affairs of the country.
Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Shadowed or black
Morally black; atrocious; wicked; sinister.
Not giving performances
Closed
Lacking in light or brightness; shaded; obscure: as, a dark day; the dark recesses of a forest.
Not fair: applied to the complexion: as, the dark-skinned races.
Not radiating or reflecting light; wholly or partially black or gray in appearance; having the quality opposite to light or white: as, a dark object; a dark color.
Without light; marked by the absence of light; unilluminated; shadowy: as, a dark night; a dark room.
In the dark; without light.
To make dark; darken; obscure.
To remain in the dark; lurk; lie hidden or concealed.
Wicked or dishonorable
(idiom) (in the dark) In secret.
(idiom) (in the dark) In a state of ignorance; uninformed.

Overtaken with night; hence, involved in moral darkness or ignorance: as, benighted Hottentots.

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Witless, Baleful, Enlightened, Pusillanimous, Feckless, Beggarly, Godforsaken, Wretched, Unaware, Uninformed, Ignorant, Nighted, Dark, Unpunctual, Unenlightened

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Witless, Baleful, Enlightened, Pusillanimous, Feckless, Beggarly, Godforsaken, Wretched, Unaware, Uninformed, Ignorant, Nighted, Dark, Unpunctual, Unenlightened

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Irish origin who had dark features, black hair, dark complexion and eyes.
Our dark times were definitely dark but through ruin comes creation.
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As said earlier Facebook can be a dark dark place.
How dark is too dark as a matter of law?
At the time of this accident the plaintiffs were walking in the dark, on a dark road, wearing dark clothes.
Dark ink includes black, dark blue, dark purple, dark green or dark brown.

The US was not at war for oil as some benighted leftist pundits claim.
We laughed sadly at the thought of those poor benighted souls suffering through that.
Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted.
The small town that we lived in had slipped into a benighted silence.
Woe to that benighted mortal who accepts literally the stories circulated concerning them!
Church deems too benighted to take offense independently on its own behalf.
It gives me a warm feeling to enlighten the benighted.
Left her benighted with sleep, the Minoid, princess of Creta?
Just what that poor benighted country needs, Australian agribusiness.
They had become benighted and sensibly stayed put.