Benighted was created in 1998.
delighted
overwhelmed, overpowered
benighted; lack of knowledge, uncultivated; etc;
Manuchehr Irani has written: 'King of the benighted'
Unversed means not experienced or not skilled.-lore means traditional knowledge that a group may have.-scholarship is to do with educational acheivement-erudition means knowledge acquired from training-learning means that which has been learned-And benighted means intellectually or morally ignorant or overtaken by darkness.So none of the alternatives has the same meaning as unversed, but benighted comes the closest.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it can mean one of three things: 1) "Overtaken by the darkness of the night; affected by the night", 2) "Involved in obscurity", and the most common usage, 3) " Involved in intellectual or moral darkness". It is the antonym of "enlightened."
untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, unread,unscholarly, illiterate, unlettered, ignorant, ill-informed, uninformed;uncouth, unsophisticated, uncultured, unaccomplished, unenlightened,philistine, benighted, backward, redneck
Getting lost or becoming over-due, possibly benighted. Accident (most likely a fall). Succumbing to cold and exhaustion (for any of several possible reasons).
"Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love." -Thomas Fuller"But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?" -Thomas Hood"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
One. It is not a theory, except in some benighted sociological sense.Two. Darwin did not develop this concept, Herbert Spencer did, and it is very poor evolutionary theory; somewhat group selectionist and somewhat Lamarckian om nature.Three. So your question is not even answerable except in the negative and in conformation to the two points above.
To be grammatically correct- Yes. The concept is something of a benighted myth, which is chanted up in college songs ( We fight with Brain and Brawn) in one Princeton song- but is something of a compromise in real life. Real highbrows tend to eschew sportive activities! It is something of at best a partly realized ideal- there have been minimum academic standards for footballers, etc. but even still.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 5 words with the pattern B---G-T--. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter B and 5th letter G and 7th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are: bedighted benighted benighten benighter broughtas