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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
challenging
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ 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 side is more challenging and helps us to design and produce new and better products.
▪ It is likely that you are already using some of them; others may seem to be more challenging.
▪ He finds it far more challenging than shooting either grouse or pheasant, which he has also done plenty of.
▪ For a more challenging opportunity, remember that people with fundraising skills or retired secretaries or accountants are frequently in demand.
▪ That may be satisfied by giving the individual more responsibility or more challenging work. 5.
▪ In the 1984 study by Bennett etal., teachers thought that their learning tasks were considerably more challenging than they were.
most
▪ One of the most challenging issues here is the staffing of work.
▪ Thirdly, and this is the most challenging categorisation, partnerships differ in terms of the intimacy of education business relationships which are developed.
▪ Amateur golfers travel to play, searching out the most challenging courses around the world.
▪ Investigative child protection interviews are one of the most challenging areas of social work practice.
▪ G M Miller A highly structured talk on what was probably the most challenging topic in this year's list.
▪ April is the most challenging month here.
▪ Worse luck on the voters who have to contend with the most challenging of ballot papers.
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪ The only shortfall, he said, was of facilities for patients with very difficult and challenging behaviour.
▪ Our selection procedure has resulted in no places being offered to students with profound or multiple disabilities or severe challenging behaviour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a challenging game
▪ Bowden called the piece, "one of the most challenging pieces of music I've ever played."
▪ Planning a wedding reception for over 1000 guests will be very challenging.
▪ The job wasn't challenging enough for me - I wanted something more creative.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A challenging language, carrying with it the sweet allure of forbidden fruit.
▪ As we all know marine fishkeeping is a challenging hobby in so many ways.
▪ But the really challenging upshot of the report was not this predictable hypocrisy.
▪ Not only have there been many important exhibitions held on these issues but many women artists have developed brave and challenging work.
▪ The only shortfall, he said, was of facilities for patients with very difficult and challenging behaviour.
▪ They had misgivings about Mr Major's diffidence, felt he was not carrying the battle to the strongly challenging enemy.
▪ This has to be achieved without adversely affecting design quality, a task that can prove quite challenging.
▪ Yet the custom side is more challenging and helps us to design and produce new and better products.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
challenging

challenging \challenging\ adj.

  1. requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.

    Syn: ambitious, demanding.

  2. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority.

    Syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive.

Wiktionary
challenging

  1. difficult, hard to do. n. The act of making a challenge. v

  2. (present participle of challenge English)

WordNet
challenging

  1. adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" [syn: ambitious]

  2. stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book" [syn: thought-provoking]

  3. disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile" [syn: intriguing]

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.