challenged
Disabled; lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
Example
“mentally challenged”
Other meanings
Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.
“He's not short; he's vertically challenged”
Related words
- immunochallenged
- nonchallenged
- unchallenged
- mentally challenged
- physically challenged
- time-challenged
- aurally challenged
- employmentally challenged
- ethically challenged
- ethically-challenged
- ethnically challenged
- follically challenged
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “challenged” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.