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Reasoned vs Informed - What's the difference?

reasoned | informed |

As adjectives the difference between reasoned and informed

is that reasoned is which is based on reasoning; which is the result of logical thought while informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education or informed can be (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.

As verbs the difference between reasoned and informed

is that reasoned is (reason) while informed is (inform).

reasoned

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • which is based on reasoning; which is the result of logical thought

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (reason)

    • 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)