Difference between Unenlightened and Benighted

UNENLIGHTENED vs BENIGHTED: ADJECTIVE

Ignorant
Not enlightened
Not enlightened; not mentally or morally illuminated; also, not proceeding from or marked by mental or moral enlightenment: as, unenlightened zeal.

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

Uncivilized, Moronic, Uncaring, Unthinking, Unintelligent, Unknowledgeable, Nescient, Dark, Uninstructed, Unlearned, Unlettered, Uneducated, Benighted, Uninformed, Ignorant

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

Uncivilized, Moronic, Uncaring, Unthinking, Unintelligent, Unknowledgeable, Nescient, Dark, Uninstructed, Unlearned, Unlettered, Uneducated, Benighted, Uninformed, Ignorant

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

Was Paul merely accommodating an unenlightened, hostile environment, or asserting his own chauvinistic tendencies?
The comment that saturated fats have never been proven unhealthy is fairly unenlightened.
Rowling, who is said to be unenlightened and outspoken about trans people.
For the still unenlightened few, barndominium is habitation from a converted barn.
For the still unenlightened few, barndominium is dwelling from a reborn barn.
He regards that as the act of unenlightened tricksters and con artists.
Yeah, you might just call out rats for being socially unenlightened.
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion.
Japanese Buddhists decision the conventional world, wherever unenlightened folks live.
The unenlightened man, wondering at this, asked what he wanted.

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.