welllearned
Welllearned is a descriptor used to denote a person who has acquired extensive knowledge through sustained study and immersion in scholarly pursuits. In modern English, the preferred forms are well-learned or well educated; welllearned without a hyphen is uncommon and often read as a nonstandard variant.
Historically, the compound is hyphenated as well-learned when used before a noun, as in a well-learned professor.
Usage notes: well-learned can sound formal or archaic in contemporary prose; in many contexts, erudite, scholarly,
In contemporary usage, well-learned is often replaced by terms like erudite or well-educated, which can carry