English

Verb

informed

1. simple past tense and past participle of inform

Adjective

informed ‎(comparative more informed, superlative most informed)

1. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
2. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 696:

     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.

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

informed ‎(comparative more informed, superlative most informed)

1. (obsolete) Created, given form.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

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

2. (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)