ill-informed

[ il-in-fawrmd ]

adjective

1. lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects:

   The public is ill-informed of the danger.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-informed¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

YouTube actively profits from its most bad-faith users, and ill-informed TikTok influencers command more space in the mediasphere than pretty much anybody else.

From Slate

As one of the roundtable participants, Jem Bendell, a sustainability expert and author of "Breaking Together," puts it: "Convening elite collaboration accentuates the illegitimate and ill-informed agendas of corporate and bureaucratic officials…. Calling for action to prevent collapse requires ignoring or downplaying the last eight years of data, which indicate modern societies worldwide are already at various stages of fracture and there is a momentum in their trajectories."

From Salon

"Morning Joe"-style liberals and Beltway Democrats will say that nativist voices in New York have an ill-informed, "populist" point of view.

From Salon

And Trump is now trying for a second term in a race most analysts consider too close to call — a prospect so disturbing that this week more than 700 current and former national security officials signed a bipartisan letter endorsing his opponent, asking Americans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris because Trump is “impulsive and ill-informed.”

From Los Angeles Times

Trump had positions on many issues, often ill-informed and wrong-headed.

From Los Angeles Times