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