informed

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/
• (RP) IPA: /ɪnˈfɔːmd/

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of inform

Adjective

informed

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.
   • 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.

Translations

• French: informé
• Italian: informato
• Portuguese: informado
• Spanish: informado

Adjective

informed

1. (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.

2. (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless
3. (astronomy, obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

   the informed stars

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