challenged
English
Pronunciation
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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
Derived terms
Derived terms
- cerebrally challenged (jocular)
- culinarily challenged (jocular)
- esthetically challenged (jocular)
- follicly challenged (jocular)
- horizontally challenged (jocular)
- hymenally challenged (jocular)
- mentally challenged
- metabolically challenged (jocular)
- physically challenged
- reality challenged (jocular)
- vertically challenged (jocular)
Translations
lacking attribute or skill
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used jocularly
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