challenging

English

Etymology

From Middle English chalengyng; equivalent to challenge +‎ -ing.

Verb

challenging

1. present participle of challenge

Adjective

challenging (comparative more challenging, superlative most challenging)

1. Difficult, hard to do.

Antonyms

• unchallenging

Translations

difficult; hard to do

• Catalan: desafiador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 很有挑戰性, 很有挑战性 (hěn yǒu tiǎnzhànxìng), 困难的

• Danish: udfordrende
• Finnish: haastava (fi), vaikea (fi), hankala (fi)
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• French: difficile (fr), stimulant (fr)
• German: anspruchsvoll (de), herausfordernd
• Hebrew: מאתגר (me'atger)
• Portuguese: desafiador (pt)
• Spanish: desafiante (es), desafiador

Noun

challenging (plural challengings)

1. The act of making a challenge.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)

     There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.

See also

• challenge