challengeless

challengeless adjective: not challenging.

Adjective

challengeless (comparative more challengeless, superlative most challengeless)

Not challenging.
- There are a variety of forms of adjustment workers may make to “objectively” challengeless work (that is, work which most observers—and especially college professors—report as challengeless).1974, MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW JANUARY, page 57
- Well educated, relatively secure in their jobs, and interested in doing their own things, these workers resist accepting the boring, challengeless jobs that their elders saw as inevitable.1981, Leonard R. Sayles, George Strauss, Managing human resources, page 458
Unchallenged.
- Forgive my voidance of the letter, thou To whom I am in deepest spirit known, Of challengeless uncalculating vow;.1881, Biographical and Miscellaneous Sonnets, page 3
- There is increasing evidence that the informal procedures, contrary to the original expectations, may themselves constitute a further obstacle to effective treatment of the delinquent to the extent that they engender in the child a sense of injustice provoked by seemingly all-powerful and...1972, Millard L. Midonick, Douglas J. Besharov, Children, parents, and the courts, page 170

challengeless (comparative more challengeless, superlative most challengeless)

Without giving or receiving a challenge.
- Then challengeless they passed the gate, Macdonald's broadsword on the door Made noise, the rookery rose in air, Came hurried steps across the floor, And voices whispered from the stair "1890, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Poems, Ballads, and Bucolics, page 150
- Challengeless, she said and did nothing.2000, Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman, →ISBN

Challengeless bureaucratic jobs inhibit the normal development of the human personality, thus leading to poor mental health, apathy, and even the delusion that one prefers highly structured work.1986, Clark Kerr, Paul D. Staudohar, Industrial relations in a new age, page 79:
O powerful and illustrious one, you who are the beginning of all the topics, you who are indestructible and challengeless, you who are the foremost of Purushas, you who are the highest of the high.2001, Om Nath Bimali, Ishvar Chandra, Manmatha Nath Dutt, Mahābhārata, page 75:

From challenge + -less.

What does challengeless mean?: Challengeless means not challenging.
How do you use challengeless in a sentence?: Challengeless bureaucratic jobs inhibit the normal development of the human personality, thus leading to poor mental health, apathy, and even the delusion that one prefers highly structured work.
What part of speech is challengeless?: Challengeless can be an adjective or an adverb.

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