INFORMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does informed mean? 

• INFORMED (adjective)
  The adjective INFORMED has 1 sense:

1. having much knowledge or education

  Familiarity information: INFORMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having much knowledge or education

Context example:

the informed customer

Similar:

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)

Also:

educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))

enlightened (having knowledge and spiritual insight)

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

Antonym:

uninformed (not informed; lacking in knowledge or information)

 Context examples 

He sent to the little tailor and caused him to be informed that as he was a great warrior, he had one request to make to him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“You are reading for the bar, Mr. Waterbrook informed me?” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I would rather Diana or Mary informed you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But had I been informed of it a few hours earlier—I think it is most probable—that something might have been hit on.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I scarcely know anyone who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As I already informed you, Nokia will not give you an interview.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Mrs. Weston informed her that she was going to call on the Bateses, in order to hear the new instrument.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Captain Benwick had been seen flying by their house, with a countenance which showed something to be wrong; and they had set off immediately, informed and directed as they passed, towards the spot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Aha!" he said; "still at your books? Good! But you must not work always. Come; I am informed that your supper is ready."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It amounted, if I am correctly informed, to five thousand pounds to anyone who will tell you where your son is?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)