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Challenged vs Challenging - What's the difference?

challenged | challenging |

As verbs the difference between challenged and challenging

is that challenged is past tense of challenge while challenging is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between challenged and challenging

is that challenged is lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives while challenging is difficult, hard to do.

As a noun challenging is

the act of making a challenge.

challenged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (challenge)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
    • mentally challenged
  • Used following adverbs to make jocular adjectives in imitation of and mocking politically correct adjectives of this kind, as "X''-challenged" = "lacking ''X ".
    • vertically challenged

    Derived terms

    * cerebrally challenged (jocular ) * esthetically challenged (jocular ) * culinarily challenged (jocular ) * follicly challenged (jocular ) * horizontally challenged (jocular ) * hymenally challenged (jocular ) * mentally challenged * metabolically challenged (jocular ) * physically challenged * reality challenged (jocular ) * vertically challenged (jocular )

    challenging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult, hard to do.

    • Antonyms

    * unchallenging

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a challenge.
  • * Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)
    • There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.

    See also

    * challenge