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Webster 1828 Edition
Challenged
CHALLENGED
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Definition 2024
challenged
challenged
English
Verb
challenged
- simple past tense and past participle of challenge
Adjective
challenged (comparative more challenged, superlative most challenged)
- 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
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Translations
lacking attribute or skill
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used jocularly
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