Informed vs Intellectual - What's the difference?
informed | intellectual |
(inform)
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:
(obsolete) Created, given form.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
(archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
* 1805 , William Wordsworth, The Prelude , Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
As adjectives the difference between informed and intellectual
is that informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education or informed can be (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless while intellectual is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.As a verb informed
is (inform).As a noun intellectual is
an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.informed
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.
Etymology 2
intellectual
Alternative forms
* intellectuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...
