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Challenging vs Agreeable - What's the difference?

challenging | agreeable |

As adjectives the difference between challenging and agreeable

is that challenging is difficult, hard to do while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

As nouns the difference between challenging and agreeable

is that challenging is the act of making a challenge while agreeable is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

As a verb challenging

is .

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

    agreeable

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
    • agreeable manners
    agreeable remarks
    an agreeable person
    fruit agreeable to the taste
  • * (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
    • A train of agreeable reveries.
  • (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
  • * (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
    • These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
  • Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
  • * (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
    • That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
  • In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
    • Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

    Synonyms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

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