informed
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɔːmd/
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Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
informed
- simple past and past participle of inform
Adjective edit
informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)
- Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
- Synonyms: abreast, apprised, up to date, up-to-date
- An informed young man delivered a lecture on the history of modern art.
- Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 696:
- Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education
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based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation
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Etymology 2 edit
in- + formed the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).
Adjective edit
informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)
- (obsolete) Created, given form.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.
- (obsolete) Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie:
- But, mindfull still of your first countries sight
, Doe still preserve your first informed grace,
Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face
- (astronomy, obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.
- the informed stars