informed
- 1Knowing a lot about something because you have learned the facts.
Like a guide who knows every path on the mountain.
She felt much more informed after reading the whole report.
An informed reader can spot mistakes in a news story.
Oppositeuninformed, ignorant, unaware
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- 2Made after learning the facts and thinking about them carefully.
Like choosing a road after seeing the whole map.
We need to make an informed choice about which school to attend.
Her informed decision saved the company a lot of money.
Similarconsidered, reasoned, educated, enlightened
Oppositeuninformed, ill-informed, arbitrary
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- 3Simple past and past participle of inform. Use this form for telling someone something in the past.
The teacher informed the class about the test yesterday.
She has informed her parents about the school trip.
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Less common meanings
- 4Made into a real thing and given a shape.
after Nilus invndation, Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie QueeneHere, informed means formed and given a shape.Note
- 5Having a bad shape, or no clear shape at all.
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- 6A star that is not part of any of the old star patterns.
Like a single house standing alone, far from any town.
The bright informed star sat alone, far from any known pattern.
Old maps showed many informed stars between the big shapes.
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informed is a form of inform
inform, verb: To tell someone facts or news so they know about something. Full entry
- Spelling
- inform → informed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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Origins
From the word "inform" plus "-ed".
From "in-" plus "formed". One meaning uses "in-" meaning "in"; another uses "in-" meaning "not".