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WELL-INFORMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Possessing sound knowledge
Example:
well-informed readers
Synonyms:
intelligent; well-informed
Classified under:
Similar:
sophisticated (having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire)
Context examples:
Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
