challengeless

English

Etymology

From challenge +‎ -less.

Adjective

challengeless (comparative more challengeless, superlative most challengeless)

1. Not challenging.
   • 1974, MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW JANUARY, page 57:

     There are a variety of forms of adjustment workers may make to “objectively” challengeless work (that is, work which most observers—and especially college professors—report as challengeless).

   • 1981, Leonard R. Sayles, George Strauss, Managing human resources, page 458:

     Well educated, relatively secure in their jobs, and interested in doing their own things, these workers resist accepting the boring, challengeless jobs that their elders saw as inevitable.

   • 1986, Clark Kerr, Paul D. Staudohar, Industrial relations in a new age, page 79:

     Challengeless bureaucratic jobs inhibit the normal development of the human personality, thus leading to poor mental health, apathy, and even the delusion that one prefers highly structured work.

2. Unchallenged.
   • 1881, Biographical and Miscellaneous Sonnets, page 3:

     Forgive my voidance of the letter, thou To whom I am in deepest spirit known, Of challengeless uncalculating vow;.

   • 1972, Millard L. Midonick, Douglas J. Besharov, Children, parents, and the courts, page 170:

     There is increasing evidence that the informal procedures, contrary to the original expectations, may themselves constitute a further obstacle to effective treatment of the delinquent to the extent that they engender in the child a sense of injustice provoked by seemingly all-powerful and challengeless exercise of authority by judges and probation officers.

   • 2001, Om Nath Bimali, Ishvar Chandra, Manmatha Nath Dutt, Mahābhārata, page 75:

     O powerful and illustrious one, you who are the beginning of all the topics, you who are indestructible and challengeless, you who are the foremost of Purushas, you who are the highest of the high.

Adverb

challengeless (comparative more challengeless, superlative most challengeless)

1. Without giving or receiving a challenge.
   • 1890, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Poems, Ballads, and Bucolics, page 150:

     Then challengeless they passed the gate, Macdonald's broadsword on the door Made noise, the rookery rose in air, Came hurried steps across the floor, And voices whispered from the stair "

   • 2000, Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman, →ISBN:

     Challengeless, she said and did nothing.