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testing

Syllables: tes·ting/ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/

testing adjective: difficult; tough. Also the present participle and gerund of test.

Adjective

testing (comparative more testing, superlative most testing)

  1. Difficult; tough.
    • A testing time lies ahead for the new administration.
    • England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC

Noun

testing (countable and uncountable, plural testings)

  1. The act of conducting a test; trialing, proving.
    • The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke

Also used as

testing is also the present participle and gerund of test.

testing meaning in Urdu, Punjabi and Gujarati

testing in Urdu

ٹیسٹنگ

testing in Punjabi

ਟੈਸਟਿੰਗ

testing in Gujarati

ટેસ્ટીંગ

Examples of testing in a sentence

  • The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
  • Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
  • Organoleptic testing of the cosmetics revealed the presence of lumps in the hand cream.

All 40 example sentences with testing

Forms of testing

Adjective
comparativemore testing
superlativemost testing
Noun
pluraltestings

Words formed from testing

Phrases with testing

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Words that rhyme with testing

Questions about testing

What does testing mean?
Testing means difficult; tough.
What is testing in Urdu?
Testing in Urdu is ٹیسٹنگ. See Testing meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is testing?
Testing can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce testing?
Testing is pronounced /ˈtɛs.tɪŋ/.

Words near testing in the dictionary

  1. testimonios
  2. testimony
  3. testin'
  4. testiness
  5. testinesses
  6. testing
  7. testing 1-2-3
  8. testing clause
  9. testing clauses
  10. testing effect
  11. testing effects

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: testing (page history and authors); testing (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); testing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); testing (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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