informed

/ɪnˈfɔərmd/

/ɪnˈfɔmd/

Other forms: informedly

When you're informed, you have all the information or knowledge that you need. An informed group of voters has been educated in detail about all the issues and candidates.

Informed students are more engaged and excited about their classes, and of course they do better on tests. An informed decision is one that you make after learning about your options and giving the matter careful thought. Informed is from the verb inform, "give someone facts or information," from the Latin informare, which literally means "to form," and is figuratively used to mean "to educate."

Definitions of informed

1. adjective

   having much knowledge or education
   “an informed public”

   “informed opinion”

   “the informed customer”

   synonyms:

   educated

   possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

   enlightened

   having knowledge and spiritual insight

   abreast, au courant, au fait, up on

   being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge

   advised

   having received information

   conversant, familiar

   (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly

   educated, enlightened

   characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

   hep, hip, hip to

   informed about the latest trends

   knowing, wise, wise to

   evidencing the possession of inside information

   knowing, knowledgeable

   alert and fully informed

   privy

   (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known

   well-read

   well informed or deeply versed through reading

   sophisticated

   having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

   antonyms:

   uninformed

   not informed; lacking in knowledge or information

   uneducated

   having or showing little to no background in schooling

   unenlightened

   not enlightened; ignorant

   clueless

   totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring

   ignorant, unknowing, unknowledgeable, unwitting

   unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge

   innocent, unacquainted

   not knowledgeable about something specified

   newsless

   not having or receiving news or information

   unadvised

   having received no information

   naive, unenlightened, uninstructed

   lacking information or instruction

   unread

   not informed through reading

   naif, naive

   marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience