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. Armistead Whitney:

   I had 200 employees that were counting on me as a leader to guide them, to make sure that they could be safe, to make sure that the company could also survive and continue to serve our customers, what we saw that day was an inability to make the right decisions. We had a binder of plans kind of sitting on the shelf that no one had ever read. And that was a very, very challenging way to try to figure out what to do.

2. Meghan Day:

   I'm also trying to recognize that it's a challenging time and that it's OK to feel overwhelmed and sad.

3. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter:

   The Syria train-and-equip program is even more challenging than the Iraq train-and-equip program, we are trying to recruit and identify people that... can be counted on -- that is, to fight, to have the right mindset and ideology.

4. Secretary General Erik Jonnaert:

   We rather want to link the challenges and issues we are facing now to meet the 2020 targets... to the discussion on the how the future will look like, instead of challenging the 2020 targets.

5. Kristen Clarke:

   In parts of the country with major cities this primary season, the decision to have a handful of in person voting sites has proven increasingly problematic, so, it is hard not to see one in-person voting location not prove to be equally challenging.