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metabolically challenged

metabolically challenged adjective: having difficulty with metabolism.

Adjective

metabolically challenged (comparative more metabolically challenged, superlative most metabolically challenged)

  1. Having difficulty with metabolism.
    • From this evaluation it was evidenced that metabolically challenged dairy cows (on the basis of concentrations of glucose, BHBA, and NEFA) show differences in liver transcripts, compared to metabolically unchallenged dairy cows [...]2010, G. Matteo Crovetto, Energy and Protein Metabolism and Nutrition, →ISBN
  2. (euphemistic, humorous) Dead.

metabolically challenged meaning in Bengali

metabolically challenged in Bengali

বিপাক নিয়ে সমস্যা থাকা, মৃত

Forms of metabolically challenged

comparativemore metabolically challenged
superlativemost metabolically challenged

Origin of metabolically challenged

The second sense is an ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like "mentally challenged".

Questions about metabolically challenged

What does metabolically challenged mean?
Metabolically challenged means having difficulty with metabolism.
What is metabolically challenged in Bengali?
Metabolically challenged in Bengali is বিপাক নিয়ে সমস্যা থাকা, মৃত. See Metabolically challenged meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is metabolically challenged?
Metabolically challenged is an adjective.

Words near metabolically challenged in the dictionary

  1. metabolic rate
  2. metabolic rates
  3. metabolic syndrome
  4. metabolical
  5. metabolically
  6. metabolically challenged
  7. metabolics
  8. metabolimeter
  9. metabolimeters
  10. metabolisability
  11. metabolisable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metabolically challenged (page history and authors); metabolically challenged (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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