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challenging

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chal·leng·ing  (chln-jng)
adj.
1. Calling for full use of one's abilities or resources in a difficult but stimulating effort: a challenging course of study; a challenging role for an inexperienced performer.
2. Absorbing; intriguing: a challenging idea.
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Adj.1.challenging - requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"
difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
2.challenging - stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book"
stimulating - rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion"
3.challenging - disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile"
provocative - serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope
Translations
Spanish challenging [ˈtʃælɪndʒɪŋ] adjque supone un reto; [tone] → de desafío
French challenging [ˈtʃælɪndʒɪŋ] challenge adj [task, career] → qui représente un défi or une gageure; [tone, look] → de défi, provocateur/trice
German challenging [ˈtʃælɪndʒɪŋ] challenge adj (career, task) → anspruchsvoll;
(tone, look etc) → herausfordernd

Italian challenging [ˈtʃælɪndʒɪŋ] adjsfidante; [remark, look] → provocatorio/a

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Suitors are so distasted with delays and abuses, that plain dealing, in denying to deal in suits at first, and reporting the success barely, and in challenging no more thanks than one hath deserved, is grown not only honorable, but also gracious.
He was challenging my manhood with his slurs, challenging the very legs he claimed to be instrumental in getting for me.
He was not tall, but he carried his head so haughtily that he looked a commanding figure, and there was something daring and challenging in his eyes.
 
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