challenged

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Verb

challenged

1. simple past tense and past participle of challenge

Adjective

challenged (comparative more challenged, superlative most challenged)

1. Lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.

   mentally challenged

2. Used following adverbs to make jocular adjectives in imitation of and mocking politically correct adjectives of this kind, as "X-challenged" = "lacking X".

   vertically challenged

Derived terms

• cerebrally challenged (jocular)
• esthetically challenged (jocular)
• culinarily challenged (jocular)
• follicly challenged (jocular)
• horizontally challenged (jocular)
• hymenally challenged (jocular)
• mentally challenged
• metabolically challenged (jocular)
• physically challenged
• reality challenged (jocular)
• vertically challenged (jocular)