Synonyms for challenging
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1. challengingadjective

   Antonyms:
   unchallenging

2. challengingadjective

   Antonyms:
   unchallenging

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1. ambitious, challengingadjective

   requiring full use of your abilities or resources

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

   Synonyms:
   intriguing, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovoking, easy, unprovocative, unstimulating, unexciting

2. challenging, thought-provokingadjective

   stimulating interest or thought

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

   Synonyms:
   intriguing, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unstimulating, unexciting, easy, unprovoking, unprovocative

3. challenging, intriguingadjective

   disturbingly provocative

   "an intriguing smile"

   Synonyms:
   intriguing, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovocative, unexciting, unstimulating, unprovoking, easy

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1. List of paraphrases for "challenging":

   difficult, demanding, stimulating, defiant, arduous, defying, hard, contesting, ambitious, challenge, exciting, problematic, complex, challenges, disputing, amphetamine-type, difficult, complicated, questioning, exacting, provocative, tough, daunting

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1. Jim Antos:

   HSBC operates one of the 10 largest U.S. banking holding companies and so for them to relocate into a perceived Chinese regulatory jurisdiction could be challenging, all the bank's main regulators -- UK, U.S., Hong Kong and maybe Singapore -- would have to agree, and that process if it took a year would be very fast.

2. Bente Nyland:

   These (mature) fields can be adversely affected by the low oil price in the short term, which means that the tail end of production will be shorter, it can become a problem because I think it will be challenging to reverse these decisions later.

3. Montoya Major:

   My initial thought, when I found out I was pregnant, was, What am I going to do with a child ? i was living in Florida, away from all my family and friends. Having kids was never a thought of mine. I wanted to pursue my degree and establish a career. MOM SHOCKED TO FIND POLICE AT HOUSE PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH HER SONS I knew that now, my entire thought process would have to be re-evaluated, and I needed to figure out what to do next, she continued. Though the director of Majors academic program told her it would be nearly impossible to complete her studies with two babies on the way, she remained laser-focused on her studies, attending class every single day literally until the day I gave birth, as per Facebook. In May 2018, little Makenna and Makinlee were born early via C-section. One week later, Montoya Major was back in the classroom. The proud mom told Fox News that she never would have been able to weather the challenging season of life without the support of family and friends, especially her dad. Her father raised her as a widow, and always championed the importance of education as his daughter was the first in their family to attend college. Throughout this entire journey my father encouraged me the most although he was not physically there. My father and I are very close and have always been inseparable after my mother passed when I was young, Montoya Major told Fox News. Whenever I had an episode of wanting to quit school he always encouraged me that it would be worth it in the end. Nevertheless, the collegian would later reflect on that journey as the hardest year of my life balancing her studies and clinical rotations with caring for two newborns on her own.

4. Chinese Ambassador Wang:

   China and Cambodia have become ironclad brothers, economical with words but generous in action, treating each other with all sincerity and standing side by side at challenging times.

5. Lewis Hamilton:

   I think this has been a good race in terms of feeling again what I felt in the first race. It shows that it wasn't just a one-off, but there are a lot of challenging races that we have coming up, Monaco is going to be a serious challenge.