informed
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/Category:English 2-syllable words#INFORMEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#INFORMED
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈfɔːmd/Category:English 2-syllable words#INFORMEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#INFORMED
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#INFORMEDAudio (US): (file)
Etymology 1
From inform + -edCategory:English terms suffixed with -ed#INFORMED.
Verb
informedCategory:English non-lemma forms#INFORMEDCategory:English verb forms#INFORMEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INFORMEDCategory:Pages with entries#INFORMEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#INFORMED
- simple past and past participle of inform
Adjective
informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)Category:English lemmas#INFORMEDCategory:English adjectives#INFORMEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INFORMEDCategory:Pages with entries#INFORMEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#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.Category:English terms with usage examples#INFORMED
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#INFORMED
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From in- + formedCategory:English terms prefixed with in-#FORMED; the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), while the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).
Adjective
informed (comparative more informed, superlative most informed)Category:English lemmas#INFORMEDCategory:English adjectives#INFORMEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INFORMEDCategory:Pages with entries#INFORMEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#INFORMED
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INFORMED) Created, given form.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- after Nilus invndation,Category:English terms with quotations#INFORMED
Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd,
Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INFORMED) Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie:
- But, mindfull still of your first countries sight,Category:English terms with quotations#INFORMED
Doe still preserve your first informed grace,
Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face
- (astronomyCategory:en:Astronomy#INFORMED, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#INFORMED) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.
- the informed starsCategory:English terms with usage examples#INFORMED