challenged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæl.ɪnd͡ʒd/, /ˈt͡ʃæl.ənd͡ʒd/

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• Hyphenation: chal‧lenged

Adjective

challenged (comparative more challenged, superlative most challenged)

1. (euphemistic) Disabled; lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.

   mentally challenged

2. (humorous) Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.

   He's not short; he's vertically challenged

Derived terms

• aurally challenged
• cerebrally challenged (humorous)
• culinarily challenged (humorous)
• employmentally challenged
• esthetically challenged (humorous)
• ethically-challenged
• ethically challenged
• ethnically challenged
• follically challenged
• follicly challenged (humorous)
• follicularly challenged
• geographically challenged
• gravitationally-challenged
• gravitationally challenged
• horizontally challenged (humorous)
• horizontally-challenged
• humanly challenged
• hymenally challenged (humorous)
• immunochallenged
• intellectually challenged
• melanin-challenged
• mentally challenged
• metabolically challenged (humorous)
• nonchallenged
• parentally challenged
• physically challenged
• racially challenged
• reality challenged (humorous)
• time-challenged
• unchallenged
• vehicularly challenged
• vertically-challenged
• vertically challenged (humorous)
• vitally challenged

Translations

lacking attribute or skill

Finnish: rajoitteinen (fi) Portuguese: inábil (pt) Spanish: discapacitado (es), dificultado (es), deficiente (es), problematizado (es), con discapacidad, con dificultades, con deficiencias, con problemas

used humorously

Finnish: rajoitteinen (fi) Spanish: carente (es), faltante (es), carecer (es) (verb), faltarle a (verb)

Verb

challenged

1. simple past and past participle of challenge