EGAVE

problematic

About 8.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s): Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide. Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
    a problematic analysis
  2. adjective Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
  3. adjective Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
    a problematic analysis
  4. adjective Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).
  5. adjective Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.
  6. noun A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.

Similar words

difficult baffling hard problematical questionable debatable knotty problem difficulty predicament

Often followed by

for in and of because to as nature than

Word family

problematical problematically problematics

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