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Supportive vs Challenging - What's the difference?

supportive | challenging |

As adjectives the difference between supportive and challenging

is that supportive is providing support while challenging is difficult, hard to do.

As a verb challenging is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun challenging is

the act of making a challenge.

supportive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Providing support.
    • I had a very supportive coach who helped me.

    Antonyms

    * unsupportive

    challenging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult, hard to do.

    • Antonyms

    * unchallenging

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a challenge.
  • * Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)
    • There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.

    See also

    * challenge