Informed

/ɪnˈfɔɹmd/ · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of inform.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of inform
2. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
3. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
4. (obsolete) Created, given form.
5. (obsolete) Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.
6. (astronomy, obsolete) Not included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

Example Sentences

An informed young man delivered a lecture on the history of modern art.

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.

after Nilus invndation, Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

But, mindfull still of your first countries sight, Doe still preserve your first informed grace, Whose shadow yet shynes in your beauteous face

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• more informed
• most informed

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