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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dùn",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "沌"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "溝瞀"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kòumào",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "沟瞀"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "méngmèi",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "蒙昧"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "悶悶"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mènmèn",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "闷闷"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yúmèi",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "愚昧"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neprosvijećen"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "neprosvećen"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "témnyj",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "те́мний"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neosvíčenyj",
"sense": "lacking education or knowledge — see also unenlightened",
"word": "неосві́чений"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "lacking morality — see also immoral, unscrupulous",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mračnjački"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "amorálʹnyj",
"sense": "lacking morality — see also immoral, unscrupulous",
"word": "амора́льний"
}
],
"word": "benighted"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English terms suffixed with -ed",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verb forms"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "benight",
"3": "ed"
},
"expansion": "benight + -ed",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From benight + -ed.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "benighted",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"be‧night‧ed"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "benight"
}
],
"glosses": [
"simple past and past participle of benight"
],
"links": [
[
"benight",
"benight#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɪˈnaɪtɪd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bə-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[-ɾɪd]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"homophone": "beknighted"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-benighted.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-benighted.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-benighted.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-benighted.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-benighted.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "benighted"
}
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