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underchallenging

underchallenging is the present participle and gerund of underchallenge.

Meaning of underchallenge

Verb

underchallenge (third-person singular simple present underchallenges, present participle underchallenging, simple past and past participle underchallenged)

  1. (transitive) To challenge to an insufficient degree.
    • If you underchallenge yourself, the goal won't serve its purpose of providing meaning and orienting you to the future.2010, Jan Fawcett, M.D., Bernard Golden, Ph.D., Nancy Rosenfeld, New Hope For People With Bipolar Disorder Revised 2nd Edition: Your Friendly ...

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Adjective

underchallenging (comparative more underchallenging, superlative most underchallenging)

  1. Insufficiently challenging.
    • Although some girls spoke with passion about work they love, others experienced work at one time or another as boring, overwhelming, frustrating, underchallenging, or demeaning.2000, Nancy Hoffman, Nitza Hidalgo, Ellen S. Silber, Keeping Gender on the Chalkboard, →ISBN

Forms of underchallenging

comparativemore underchallenging
superlativemost underchallenging

Questions about underchallenging

What does underchallenging mean?
Underchallenging means insufficiently challenging.
What is underchallenging the present participle and gerund of?
Underchallenging is the present participle and gerund of underchallenge.
What part of speech is underchallenging?
Underchallenging is an adjective.

Words near underchallenging in the dictionary

  1. undercellar
  2. undercellars
  3. underchallenge
  4. underchallenged
  5. underchallenges
  6. underchallenging
  7. underchamber
  8. underchamberlain
  9. underchamberlains
  10. underchambers
  11. underchancellor

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