inform
To communicate knowledge to.
Verb 4 meanings
To communicate knowledge to.
To impart information or knowledge.
To act as an informer; denounce.
To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
“His sense of religion informs everything he writes.”
Adjective 1 meaning
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
Etymology
From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin īnfōrmō (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + fōrma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form.
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INFORM at a glance
INFORM has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (I 1 + N 1 + F 4 + O 1 + R 1 + M 3) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,507 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with inform
All rhymes- FORM9
- PLATFORM15
- PERFORM14
- STORM7
- REFORM11
- UNIFORM12
- TRANSFORM14
- NORM6
- WORM9
- DORM7
- CONFORM14
- THUNDERSTORM18
One letter away
- INFIRM11
- UNFORM11
- ENFORM11
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