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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How to use challenging in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Anita Jain:

   There is the economic burden, which is very challenging in a country like India, but also it leads to unnecessary procedures and unnecessary investigations.

3. Barbara De Angelis:

   You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

4. Steve Phillips:

   It's going to be challenging to put a law enforcement person on the ticket with him.

5. Micah Parsons:

   I think they got some really great players around here, but I just think it’s a bunch of players that work really hard, and I think it rubs off whenever you play guys like La’el [Collins in practice]. When I’m going against La’el, and I’m challenging him every down, saying, ‘What could I do there? How can I make this better?’ or I’m going against Zack [Martin], and I’m just getting those opportunities, it really just makes those guys [on other teams] not look as good.