• Informed

    Pronunciation

    Origin 1

    Verb

    informed
    1. informed

      (past of inform)

    Full definition of informed

    Adjective

    informed

    1. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
    2. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
      • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 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.
    3. (obsolete) Created, given form.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:after Nilus invndation,
        Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd,
        Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

    Origin 2

    Adjective

    informed

    1. (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless
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