informed meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

informed

adj

US /ɪnˈfɔɹmd/ · UK /ɪnˈfɔːmd/

Etymology From inform + -ed.

Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.

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, Penguin, published 2010, page 696:

Derived terms: ill-informed, informed consent, informedly, informedness, malinformed, trauma-informed stabilization treatment, underinformed, uninformed, well-informed

adj

Etymology From in- + formed; the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), while the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).

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 William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Obsolete 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 face1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie:

Astronomy, Natural sciences Obsolete Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.