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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-informed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-informed/ill-informed
▪ I became reasonably well-informed about the subject.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Le Monde' is a newspaper designed for well-informed readers.
▪ According to one well-informed source, the two sides are very near to reaching an agreement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he was one of the most well-informed, widely read and serious political figures in public life.
▪ Discussion of politics, political argument, was thus well-informed and critical.
▪ If the report is directed to less privileged and well-informed mortals, either avoid it or explain it.
▪ In general, tribunal chairmen are well-informed and familiar with most authorities.
▪ One had need to be well-informed to travel with that child.
▪ The service-specific-disciplinary management team is in the best position to make well-informed decisions.
▪ This lifted investors' spirits immensely, as well as filling well-informed politicians' campaign coffers.
▪ We will continue to encourage a wide and well-informed public debate on the electoral system.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Well-informed

Well-informed \Well`-in*formed"\, a. Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
well-informed

mid-15c., from well (adv.) + past participle of inform (v.).

Wiktionary
well-informed

a. Furnished with sufficient, correct knowledge

WordNet
well-informed

adj. possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers" [syn: intelligent]

Usage examples of "well-informed".

There are times when a well-informed dissertation on aphagia in the reptiles of South America can be of real benefit, and Christmas Eve in the year 1911 seemed to be one of them.

This intrigued me a great deal, the more so after I had discovered that he was extremely well-informed about all aspects of Arthurian studies.

We hold that no man except a skilled anatomist and a well-informed physiologist has a right to perform experiments on animals.

When Monsieur Leblanc was sober, he was a most excellent and well-informed tutor, although one apt to digress into many side issues, which in themselves were not uninstructive.

The life which had made her what she was, a young woman singularly unillusioned, well-poised, and well-informed, had brought out in her nature a strong vein of scepticism.

He was well-informed, though he had been brought up at Naples, and his manners were very distinguished.

Even the well-informed Fabian pamphlets are hopelessly dull, considered as reading matter.

As an American, and not a particularly well-informed one at that, Rudy had expected the subjects of a monarchy to fear and resent those who had such absolute power over them, and it surprised him to see the reverence in which they held Alde and Tir.

Ursula Young had become a familiar acquaintance, and it was from this brisk well-informed lady bloodstock agent that I learned most about Ian Pargetter and his death.

If I were a well-informed physician of the nineteenth century -- a pupil of Charcot, for instance -- I should call her an hysteric and forget about her, but that is not my way.

This Narischkin, a pleasant and a well-informed man, was the husband of the famous Maria Paulovna.

What spatial and temporal arbitrage have in common is that both hinge on the arbitrageur's being extremely well-informed.

As to the 250 of the new third, these are liberals of 1789 or moderates of 1791,[42] most of them honorable men and many of them well-informed and of real merit, jurisconsults, officers, administrators, members of the Constitutional Assembly or Feuillants in the Legislative Assembly, Mathieu Dumas, Vaublanc, Dupont de Nemours, Siméon, Barbé-Marbois and Tronçon- Ducoudray.

He larked with the midshipmen, played single-stick with the mates, ran up the shrouds like a boy, sang a comic song one night to the amusement of the whole party assembled over their grog after supper, and rendered himself so gay, lively, and amiable, that even Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer.