Challenged

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a disability or impairment.
  • adj. Deficient or lacking: an ethically challenged politician.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of challenge.
  • adj. Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
  • adj. Used following adverbs to make jocular adjectives in imitation of and mocking politically correct adjectives of this kind, as "X-challenged" = "lacking X".
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. having doubts expressed about its truth.
  • adj. handicapped or disabled; -- used as a euphemism, especially in combinations.
  • Word Usage
    "I don't mean that he's crazy, but just kind of what they call challenged, which I guess must mean just this side of retarded."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disputed    questioned   
    Verb Stem
    challenge