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Informed vs Advised - What's the difference?

informed | advised |

As verbs the difference between informed and advised

is that informed is past tense of inform while advised is past tense of advise.

As adjectives the difference between informed and advised

is that informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education while advised is considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation.

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)

    advised

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation.
  • Informed, appraised or made aware.
  • Usage notes

    In the sense of considered or thought out, the word (advised) is often used in combinations such as (well-advised) or (ill-advised).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (advise)