challenging
//ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪn.d͡ʒɪŋ//
Forms
- Comparative
- more challenging
- Superlative
- most challenging
- Plural
- challengings
Definitions
1.present participle and gerund of challenge
1.Difficult, hard to do.
1.The act of making a challenge.
- There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4740
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English chalengynge; equivalent to challenge + -ing.