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Calling into question
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challenging
Word definitions for challenging in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
challenging \challenging\ adj. requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task. Syn: ambitious, demanding. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority. Syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ As the children get used to your interventions, you can make them more challenging . ▪ He highlights the more challenging places, but says that the skiing tends to be on the tame side. ▪ Yet the custom ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" [syn: ambitious ] stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book" [syn: thought-provoking ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
difficult, hard to do. n. The act of making a challenge. v (present participle of challenge English)
Usage examples of challenging.
Then came the challenging letters from Henry Akeley which impressed me so profoundly, and which took me for the first and last time to that fascinating realm of crowded green precipices and muttering forest streams.
The work was less backbreaking and more challenging, if not physically, then cerebrally.
His feet were flipping and he yipped as if challenging some wolf badman in his dreams.
She wore both her bliaut and her chemise cut low to show off her ample breasts, and her wild mane of copper curls gave her an untamed sensuality that any man would find challenging.
Somehow she, or fate, or, more likely Boolean, has come up with something we failed to anticipate, some new equation that is challenging the neat and ordered set we were dealing with.
The fact that he limped deluded other bulls into thinking that here was an easy enemy, and in the first years he was often challenged, always to the dismay of those who did the challenging.
She swam toward it, challenging the current, moving with it and through it with the sleek, undulating curves of her body.
And from the time those doggone Wal-Marts opened until almost today, it has been a little challenging.
She was not, therefore, precluded from challenging the finding of the Nevada court that the decedent was, at the time of the divorce, domiciled in that State.
Harun made his mark early, at the age of nineteen, with his earthshaking paper on electron decaythe paper that revolutionized physics by challenging the law of electric-charge conservation.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to consider the forces which for the last two generations have been challenging and reshaping inherited faiths, and then to consider the outcome of it all in the outstanding religious attitudes of our own time.
He spoke in Inuktitut, giving them some privacy and challenging Eddie to be an Inuk.
Jobs, and in anything physically challenging Jobs did the same in reverse.
To the east they soon would be ready to advance, challenging the wights holding the Landbridge in an effort to clear the way and march through into Namarre to put an end to the uprising.
Challenging a superior officer cannot in fairness be leveled against you.