Definition of Nighted

1. Adjective. Overtaken by night or darkness. "Benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"

Exact synonyms: Benighted
Similar to: Unpunctual

Definition of Nighted

1. a. Darkness; clouded.

Definition of Nighted

1. Adjective. Dark; clouded ¹

2. Adjective. Overtaken by night; belated ¹

3. Verb. (past of night#Verb night) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nighted

1. benighted, lost in darkness [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nighted

nightclubbed
nightclubber
nightclubbers
nightclubbing
nightclubby
nightclublike
nightclubs
nightcrawler
nightcrawlers
nightdream
nightdreaming
nightdreams
nightdress
nightdressed
nightdresses
nighted (current term)
nightertale
nightfall
nightfalls
nightgear
nightglow
nightglows
nightgown
nightgowned
nightgowns
nightguard
nighthawk
nighthawker
nighthawkers
nighthawking

Literary usage of Nighted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Little Masterpieces of English Poetry edited by Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig (1905)
"8 In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their ..."

2. A Selection from the Great English Poets: With an Essay on the Reading of edited by Sherwin Cody (1905)
"In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting They stay their crystal ..."

3. Notes to Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs & Lyrics. Books I-IV. by John Henry Fowler (1904)
"In a drear-nighted December 1. drear-nighted. This epithet combines two ... In coining ' drear-nighted ' Keats may be said to be only following the analogy ..."

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