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/ɪnˈfɔːmənt/ · noun
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer..
One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.
The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.
Use informant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Informant means One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer..
Common synonyms include consultant, abaddon, accuser, beefer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.
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