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Informed vs Said - What's the difference?

informed | said |

As verbs the difference between informed and said

is that informed is past tense of inform while said is past tense of say.

As adjectives the difference between informed and said

is that informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education while said is mentioned earlier.

As a determiner said is

mentioned earlier.

As a proper noun Said is

an alternative spelling of Sayyid|lang=en.

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)

    said

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (say)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • mentioned earlier
    • The said party has denied the charges.

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • mentioned earlier
    • Said party has denied the charges.

    See also

    * Said for proper noun sense

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