Someone who is informed knows about a subject or what is happening in the world.
Informed people know the company is shaky.
...the importance of keeping the public properly informed.
Synonyms: knowledgeable, up to date, enlightened, learned More Synonyms of informed
2. See also well-informed
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
When journalists talk about informed sources, they mean people who are likely to give correct information because of their private or special knowledge.
According to informed sources, those taken into custody include at least one major-general.
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
An informed guess or decision is one that likely to be good, because it is based on definite knowledge or information.
An informed guess at his personal wealth was $1.25 billion.
We are able to make more informed choices about how we use drugs.
5. See also inform
informed in British English
(ɪnˈfɔːmd)
adjective
1.
having much knowledge or education; learned or cultured
2.
based on information
an informed judgment
informed in American English
(ɪnˈfɔrmd)
adjective
having or based on much information, knowledge, or education
Examples of 'informed' in a sentence
informed
But it will help people make more informed choices.
The Sun (2017)
After that an informed patient can make responsible choices as to how to proceed.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You rarely know, you make informed guesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
You can't make informed choices about treatments when half the data is left unpublished.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
As the recipes give details of the ingredients, this shouldn't be onerous and it may perhaps help people to make better informed choices.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
After all, it is the doctors who have the education, skills and relationships with patients who make informed judgments about potential courses of treatment.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
An informed guess is the best we can manage.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Very few people have an informed opinion of what the options are.
Coyle, Andrew & Stern, Vivien The Prisons We Deserve (1994)
This includes the requirement to obtain informed consent from participants.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Then maybe you can make an informed choice while you still have time.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The political process needs to get better at helping all of us to make informed choices.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
To do that requires information that enables executives to make informed judgments.
Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)
An informed public argument requires an expert contribution.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She now campaigns for informed consent and fuller disclosure of risks and benefits of screening.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Risk warnings need to be comprehensible to the public so that they can make an informed choice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She could not have given informed consent to it being used.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It would be easy to do and it would help us make an informed choice.
Hanssen, Maurice & Marsden, Jill E For Additives (1987)
Another benefit to midlife marriage is that partners may already have become well informed and comfortable about their body.
Christianity Today (2000)
So why not rebuild it, making informed guesses as to how it might have once looked?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But it does trust them to make an informed choice about who should govern Britain.
The Sun (2013)
The pair have had a long relationship and remain together pending an outcome to the divorce proceedings, according to an informed source.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Little wonder that these officers are members of a highly trained elite who have earned and deserve the respect both of their colleagues and the informed public.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
As is so often the case, the observations of the informed general public are so much more perceptive than those of our politicians.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
And expectations are, at best, informed guesses.
Peter F. Drucker THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001)
The operations earn about € 1 billion a year, according to one informed source.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It was four hours well spent, and I too am now better informed and hopefully a better driver.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
informed
British English: informed ADJECTIVE
Someone who is informed knows about a subject or what is happening in the world.
Informed people know the company is shaky.
American English: informed
Brazilian Portuguese: informado
Chinese: 见多识广的
European Spanish: informado
French: informé
German: informiert
Italian: beninformato
Japanese: 見聞の広い
Korean: 견문이 넓은
European Portuguese: informado
Latin American Spanish: informado
Chinese translation of 'informed'
informed
(ɪnˈfɔːmd)
adj
[person]有见(見)识(識)的 (yǒu jiànshi de)
to be well/poorly informed见(見)多识(識)广(廣)的/孤陋寡闻(聞)的 (jiànduō-shíguǎng de/gūlòu-guǎwén de)
an informed guess/choice有根据(據)的猜测(測)/选(選)择(擇) (yǒu gēnjù de cāicè/xuǎnzé)
inform
(ɪnˈfɔːm)
vt
(= tell) 告诉(訴) (gàosù)
(frm, = give form to) 贯(貫)穿 (guànchuān)
vi
to inform on sb (to police, authorities) 告发(發)某人 (gàofā mǒurén)
to inform sb of sth把某事通知某人 (bǎ mǒushì tōngzhī mǒurén)
to inform sb that ... 告诉(訴)某人 ... (gàosù mǒurén ... )
(adjective)
the importance of keeping the public properly informed
Synonyms
knowledgeable
school-age children who were very knowledgeable about soccer
up to date
enlightened
He should be remembered as an enlightened and humane reformer.
learned
He is a serious scholar, a genuine learned man.
primed
posted
expert
briefed
familiar
versed
Page is versed in many styles of jazz.
acquainted
in the picture
plugged-in (slang)
up
abreast
in the know (informal)
erudite
I found him a charming and erudite companion.
well-read
conversant
au fait (French)
in the loop
genned up (British, informal)
au courant (French)
keeping your finger on the pulse
Additional synonyms
in the sense of enlightened
Definition
(of a person) tolerant and unprejudiced
He should be remembered as an enlightened and humane reformer.