well-qualified

1. 1.

   more than adequately qualified

   “a well-qualified officer”

   Similarqualified

Questions about well-qualified

What does well-qualified mean?

well-qualified means "more than adequately qualified".

How many syllables are in well-qualified?

well-qualified has 5 syllables and divides as well-q-ua-li-fi-ed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is well-qualified a common word?

well-qualified is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.