informed

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of inform

comparative more informed · superlative most informed

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

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

   Synonyms: abreast, apprised, up to date, up-to-date

2. 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

comparative more informed · superlative most informed

1. obsoleteCreated, 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

2. obsoleteUnformed 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 face

   1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie

3. obsoleteastronomyNot included within the figures of any of the ancient constellations.

   the informed stars