challenging

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃælɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/

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challenging

1. present participle and gerund of challenge

challenging (comparative more challenging, superlative most challenging)

1. Difficult, hard to do.
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   • 1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Carl Wittman: An Activist's Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 7:

     In my political/cultural mythology Carl remained this larger-than-life figure: someone who had been doing things before others had even begun thinking about them. But knowing Carl, the fantasy made flesh, was a different experience. The keen mind that wrote "A Gay Manifesto" was even more perceptive and challenging in real life.

• unchallenging

challenging (plural challengings)

1. The act of making a challenge.
   • 1918, 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.

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