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informed en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ɪnˈfɔːmd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From inform + -ed.

Meanings

1. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
   • An informed young man delivered a lecture on the history of modern art.
2. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
   • 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. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 696:

Forms

Deriveds

informedly · informedness · uninformed · ill-informed · malinformed · trauma-informed stabilization treatment · well-informed · informed consent · underinformed

Synonyms

up-to-date · abreast · apprised · up to date

Translations (23)

hi अवगत (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · tr haberli (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · uk обі́знаний (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · ota خبردار (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · tr haberdar (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · uk поінформо́ваний (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · es anoticiado (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · fr informé (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · pt informado (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · fi asioihin perehtynyt (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · es enterado (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · bn ওয়াকেফ (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · es informado (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · hu jól értesült (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · bg осведомен (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · fi tietoperäinen (based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation) · gl informado (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · hu megalapozott (based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation) · gl sabedor (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · ga eolach (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · hu tájékozott (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · fi asiantunteva (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education) · it informato (instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education)

informed en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ɪnˈfɔːmd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From inform + -ed.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of inform
   form of inform

informed en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ɪnˈfɔːmd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From in- + formed; the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), while the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Created, given form.
   • after Nilus invndation, Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. (obsolete) Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.
   • But, mindfull still of your first countries sight, Doe still preserve your first informed grace, Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie:
3. (obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.
   • the informed stars

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