challenged
Academic Word List, sublist 5.
About 10.55 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Disabled; lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
mentally challenged
- adjective Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.
He's not short or bald; he's vertically and follicularly challenged.
- verb simple past and past participle of challenge
Similar words
difficult hard provocative thought-provoking intriguing ambitious stimulating upset shaken hampered
Often followed by
the by to in and him on as with
Word family
challenge challenger challengers challenges challenging
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