benight

Other forms of benight

past tense

benighted·

present participle

benighting·

third person

benights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about benight

What does benight mean?

benight means "overtake with darkness or night". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in benight?

benight has 2 syllables: be-night. The stress falls on "night". In IPA it is /biˈnaɪt/.

What is another word for benight?

Close synonyms include bedim. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is benight a common word?

benight is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with benight?

19 words rhyme with benight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.