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Gruelling vs Challenging - What's the difference?

gruelling | challenging |

As adjectives the difference between gruelling and challenging

is that gruelling is so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking while challenging is difficult, hard to do.

As a verb challenging is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun challenging is

the act of making a challenge.

gruelling

English

Alternative forms

* grueling

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

    • Synonyms

    * (so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted) backbreaking, exhausting

    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