informed
Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
Adjective 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...
- 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:
- Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.
- the informed stars
Origin
From in- + formed; the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), while the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).
Forms
Adjective Entry 2
- Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
- An informed young man delivered a lecture on the history of modern art.
Synonyms: abreast apprised up to date up-to-date
- 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,...
Origin
Etymology tree English inform English -ed English informed From inform + -ed.
Forms
Derived
ill-informed informed consent informedly informedness malinformed trauma-informed stabilization treatment underinformed uninformed well-informed
Verb
- simple past and past participle of inform