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Informative vs Informed - What's the difference?

informative | informed |

As adjectives the difference between informative and informed

is that informative is providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information while informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.

As a verb informed is

past tense of inform.

informative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Providing information; especially , providing useful or interesting information.
    • I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week.
  • (in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.

    • Synonyms

    * (providing information) informatory, instructive

    Antonyms

    * (providing information) uninformative * (not specifying requirements) normative

    Related terms

    * inform * information

    informed

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (inform)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
  • Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 696:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) Created, given form.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
    • after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless
    • (Spenser)