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Informed
//ɪnˈfɔɹmd// adj, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 Created, given form. obsolete
"after Nilus invndation, Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd."
- 3 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."
- 4 Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. obsolete
"But, mindfull still of your first countries sight, Doe still preserve your first informed grace, Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face"
- 5 Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations. obsolete
"the informed stars"
Adjective
- 1 having much knowledge or education wordnet
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of inform form-of, participle, past
Etymology
Etymology 1
From inform + -ed.
Etymology 2
From inform + -ed.
Etymology 3
From in- + formed; the first sense probably uses in- (“in”), while the second sense uses in- (“prefix of negation”).
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