informed
[in-fawrmd]
- having or prepared with information or knowledge; apprised: an informed audience that asked intelligent questions.
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Origin of informed
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Contemporary Examples
In Revolution, Brand bemoans our “uninformed populace,” while repeatedly proving his point with fantastically wrong information.
It becomes a hapless gesture of uninformed social media departments who perceive the potential of engagement without consequences.
Three kinds of guessing: the informed, the uninformed, and the demented.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 May Have Been Flown Into the World's Biggest VoidClive Irving
March 15, 2014
Given the history here, this might have put an uninformed observer in mind of biting the hand that feeds you.
A lot of loud, noisy, uninformed people won the day by shouting “hurt.”
Historical Examples
Hence the word became synonymous with ignorant and uninformed.
Shakespeare Jest-Books;Unknown
So too we are uninformed as to his lineage, except that his father's name was Simon.
Jesus the ChristJames Edward Talmage
To the uninformed this very exception might appear conclusive, but it is not.
To one uninformed, a pow-wow of Indians might have been supposed to be going on.
Hubert's WifeMinnie Mary Lee
To believe that it did is the error of an impulsive and uninformed scepticism.
Flowers of FreethoughtGeorge W. Foote
uninformed
- not having knowledge or information about a situation, subject, etc
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informed
- having much knowledge or education; learned or cultured
- based on informationan informed judgment
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Word Origin and History for uninformed
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