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Struggling vs Challenging - What's the difference?

struggling | challenging |

As verbs the difference between struggling and challenging

is that struggling is while challenging is .

As nouns the difference between struggling and challenging

is that struggling is the act of one who struggles while challenging is the act of making a challenge.

As an adjective challenging is

difficult, hard to do.

struggling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who struggles.
  • * 1848 , Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion
    • All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.

    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