challenging

Main Entry:
challenge [chal-inj]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dispute, question
Synonyms: accost, arouse, ask for, assert, beard, brave, call for, call out, claim, confront, cross, dare, defy, demand, denounce, exact, face down, face off, face the music, fly in the face of, hang in, impeach, impose, impugn, inquire, insist upon, investigate, invite competition, make a point of, make a stand, object to, provoke, query, reclaim, require, search out, stand up to, stick it out, stimulate, summon, tax, test, throw down the gauntlet, try, vindicate
Antonyms: agreement, answer, decision, victory
Main Entry: defiant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disobedient, disregardful
Synonyms: aggressive, audacious, bold, challenging, contumacious, daring, gutsy, insolent, insubmissive, insubordinate, mutinous, obstinate, provocative, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, resistant, resistive, sassy*, truculent
Antonyms: acquiescent, obedient, respectful, submissive, submitting, subordinating
Main Entry: difficult
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hard on someone; hard to do
Synonyms: Gargantuan, Herculean, ambitious, arduous, backbreaker, bothersome, burdensome, challenging, crucial, demanding, difficile, easier said than done, effortful, exacting, formidable, galling, hard-won, heavy, immense, intricate, irritating, labored, laborious, no picnic, not easy, onerous, operose, painful, problem, problematic, prohibitive, rigid, severe, stiff, strenuous, titanic, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, upstream, wearisome
Antonyms: calm, easy, free, manageable, plain, simple, uncomplicated
Main Entry: formidable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, overwhelming
Synonyms: all-powerful, arduous, awesome, ballbuster, challenging, colossal, dismaying, effortful, great, hard, impressive, indomitable, intimidating, labored, laborious, mammoth, mighty, murder*, onerous, overpowering, powerful, puissant, rough go, rough*, staggering, strenuous, tall order, toilsome, tough proposition, tough*, tremendous, uphill
Antonyms: easy, not hard, pleasant, trivial
Main Entry: inquisitive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: curious
Synonyms: analytical, big-eyed, challenging, forward, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitorial, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peering, personal, poking, presumptuous, probing, prying, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, sifting, snooping, speculative
Antonyms: incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested
Main Entry: provocative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggravating
Synonyms: annoying, challenging, disturbing, exciting, galling, goading, heady, incensing, inciting, influential, inspirational, insulting, intoxicating, offensive, outrageous, provoking, pushing, spurring, stimulant, stimulating
Antonyms: repressive, suppressive, unprovocative
Main Entry: stimulating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exciting
Synonyms: adrenalizing, appealing, arousing, bracing, breathtaking, challenging, electrifying, energizing, exhilarating, gripping, hair-raising, hectic, inspiring, interesting, invigorating, lively, moving, provocative, rousing, spine-tingling, stirring, thought-provoking, thrilling, titillating
Main Entry: quickening
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stimulating
Synonyms: adrenalizing, animating, appealing, arousing, bracing, breathtaking, challenging, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, gripping, hair-raising, hectic, inspiring, interesting, invigorating, lively, moving, provocative, rousing, spine-tingling, stirring, thought-provoking, thrilling, titillating, vitalizing, vivifying
Main Entry: reinvigorating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tonic
Synonyms: adrenalizing, appealing, arousing, bracing, breathtaking, challenging, electrifying, energizing, exhilarant, exhilarating, gripping, hair-raising, hectic, innerving, inspiring, interesting, intoxicating, invigorating, lively, moving, provocative, refreshing, renewing, restorative, roborant, rousing, spine-tingling, stimulating, stirring, thought-provoking, thrilling, titillating
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