Synonyms for challenging
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1. challengingadjective

   Antonyms:
   unchallenging

2. challengingadjective

   Antonyms:
   unchallenging

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1. ambitious, challengingadjective

   requiring full use of your abilities or resources

   "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"

   Synonyms:
   intriguing, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovoking, easy, unprovocative, unstimulating, unexciting

2. challenging, thought-provokingadjective

   stimulating interest or thought

   "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book"

   Synonyms:
   intriguing, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unstimulating, unexciting, easy, unprovoking, unprovocative

3. challenging, intriguingadjective

   disturbingly provocative

   "an intriguing smile"

   Synonyms:
   intriguing, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovocative, unexciting, unstimulating, unprovoking, easy

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1. List of paraphrases for "challenging":

   difficult, demanding, stimulating, defiant, arduous, defying, hard, contesting, ambitious, challenge, exciting, problematic, complex, challenges, disputing, amphetamine-type, difficult, complicated, questioning, exacting, provocative, tough, daunting

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1. Ryne Sandberg:

   It's a difficult day, a challenging day and a tough day for Ryne Sandberg, it was not an easy decision. In a lot of ways I'm old-school and I'm very, very much dissatisfied with the record and am not pleased at all with that.

2. Dyan Cannon:

   It’s been a challenge — it’s really been challenging, but I ’m feeling very good that John Doyle liked it enough that John Doyle was drawn to it. I think John Doyle ’ll help us make something I think people will enjoy.

3. Joel Kan:

   More acute affordability challenges will emerge if inventory stays this tight and home-price growth continues to accelerate, this, in turn, would be especially challenging for first-time homebuyers, who make up a third of all home sales.

4. Mike Hawes:

   It's extremely concerning that government has seemingly moved the goalposts for consumers and industry on such a critical issue, with current demand for this still expensive technology still just a fraction of sales, it's clear that accelerating an already very challenging ambition will take more than industry investment.

5. John Cywinski:

   Hiring team members in this environment is a challenge. And retaining them is challenging, what Walker Hayes found is team members really liked to be a part of something bigger.