Usually means: Faced with difficulties or obstacles.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word challenged:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. challenged: Merriam-Webster
  2. challenged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. challenged: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. challenged: Collins English Dictionary
  5. challenged: Vocabulary.com
  6. Challenged, challenged: Wordnik
  7. challenged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. challenged: Wiktionary
  9. challenged: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. challenged: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. challenged: Dictionary.com
  12. challenged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Challenged: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Challenged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. Challenged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. challenged: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. challenged: FreeDictionary.org
  18. challenged: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. challenged: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. challenged: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. challenged: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. challenged: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. challenged: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. challenged: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. challenged: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. challenged: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (euphemistic) Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
▸ adjective:  (humorous) Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.

Similar:
difficult, provocative, intriguing, thought-provoking, ambitious, stimulating, hard, encouraged, question, inspired, more...

Opposite:
aided, supported, facilitated, assisted, enabled

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mentally challenged, more...

Phrases:
physically challenged, mentally challenged, intellectually challenged, vertically challenged, visually challenged, more...

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Similar:
difficult, provocative, intriguing, thought-provoking, ambitious, stimulating, hard, encouraged, question, inspired, more...

Opposite:
aided, supported, facilitated, assisted, enabled

Types:
mentally challenged, more...

Phrases:
physically challenged, mentally challenged, intellectually challenged, vertically challenged, visually challenged, developmentally challenged, ethically challenged, cerebrally challenged, more...

Colors:
    gray,     red,     yellow,     orange,     black, more...



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