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Challenging vs Testingly - What's the difference?

challenging | testingly |

As a verb challenging

is .

As an adjective challenging

is difficult, hard to do.

As a noun challenging

is the act of making a challenge.

As an adverb testingly is

in a tentative and experimental manner.

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

    testingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a tentative and experimental manner.
  • * 1994 , Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate, The Best Intentions
    • I have lived as a spoiled child and you have lived as an exposed child, and now those children are looking testingly at each other.
  • * 1997 , Erika Fischer-Lichte, Jo Riley, The show and the gaze of theatre: a European perspective
    • At the same time she lifts her left leg testingly in a kind of skip or dance step, before exiting quietly stage right.
  • In a challenging manner; so as to test the stamina, patience, etc.
  • * 2005 , Thom Burnett, Conspiracy Encyclopedia
    • ...whether the exercises took place in recognized military training areas or in territory testingly unfamiliar to the troops.