What does challenging mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ambitious, challengingadjective

    requiring full use of your abilities or resources

    "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

  2. challenging, thought-provokingadjective

    stimulating interest or thought

    "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book"

  3. challenging, intriguingadjective

    disturbingly provocative

    "an intriguing smile"

Wiktionary

  1. challengingadjective

    Difficult, hard to do.

ChatGPT

  1. challenging

    Challenging refers to something that requires significant effort, skill or resilience to undertake or accomplish due to its complexity, difficulty or demand. It often implies a task, problem, or situation that puts one's abilities and resources to test, inviting growth and development through overcoming obstacles and difficulties.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Challenging

    of Challenge

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of challenging in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of challenging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of challenging in a Sentence

  1. Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper:

    It’s extremely challenging for us as a police department, it’s challenging for these families because here’s a group of kids who have decided that they’re going to fight and put it on social media where everybody can see it.

  2. George Bernard Shaw:

    All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

  3. Unknown:

    The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.

  4. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  5. Howard Cohen:

    Its a very challenging time in film distribution for indies and everyone but Disney, maybe, we like movies that can draw an audience, that are crowd-pleasers. In a challenging environment, you have to give people a really strong reason to leave their house.

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