challengeable

chal·lenge  (chlnj)

n.

1.

a. A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: a challenge to a duel.

b. An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation: a challenge to the government's authority.

2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question: a challenge to a theory.

3. A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.

4. A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking: a career that offers a challenge.

5. A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.

6. Law A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.

7. Immunology The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

v. chal·lenged, chal·leng·ing, chal·leng·es

v.tr.

1.

a. To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: challenged me to a game of chess.

b. To invite with defiance; dare: challenged him to contradict her. See Synonyms at defy.

2. To take exception to; call into question; dispute: a book that challenges established beliefs.

3. To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.

4. Law To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).

5. To question the qualifications of (a voter) or validity of (a vote).

6. To have due claim to; call for: events that challenge our attention.

7. To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate: a problem that challenges the imagination.

8. Immunology To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

v.intr.

1. To make or give voice to a challenge.

2. To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.

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[Middle English chalenge, from Old French, from Latin calumnia, trickery, false accusation; see calumny. V., from Middle English chalengen, from Old French chalangier, from Latin calumnir, from calumnia.]

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challenge·a·ble adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

challengeable - capable of being challenged contestable - capable of being contested

Translations

challengeable

adj → anfechtbar