challenging

challenging
adj.
VERBS
be, prove
make sth

We have changed the course to make it more challenging.

find sth

He found the course academically challenging.

ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
enough, sufficiently

The tasks were not challenging enough for me and I got bored.

academically, intellectually, physically, politically, technically
Challenging is used with these nouns: ↑job, ↑look, ↑question, ↑target, ↑task, ↑work

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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