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US
/ˌpɹɑbɫəˈmætɪkəɫ/
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[ UK /pɹˌɒbəlmˈætɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /pɹˌɒbəlmˈætɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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open to doubt or debate
If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic -
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
How To Use problematical In A Sentence
- But again, perhaps problematically, they are beautiful statues – inspiring, optimistic, and utopian; totems to the radiant future that was always promised, but never quite arrived.
- No girl is left to languish and die forsaken by her betrayer, for the betrayer is a worthy young man who marries her as soon as he possibly can; no finger of scorn is pointed at the fallen one, for all the fingers in the street are attached to women who began life in precisely the same fashion; and as for that problematical Day of Judgment of which they hear so much on Sundays, perhaps they feel that that also may be one of the things which after all do not happen. The Solitary Summer
- How do you deal with obnoxious behavior, misbehaving in public or just been problematical? SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 644
- Two problematical areas in modern-day criminal law are dishonesty and intention.
- I feel that it remains problematical to try to determine the politics of a source by looking at who cites it.
- The problem that Q Grrl seems to have with ‘trans politics’* - that the experiences and oppression of gender-variant people who do not identify as trans, or who only partially or problematically ID as trans, are sometimes erased by trans politics - is, I agree, a problem. Language around trans, how it works, how it doesn’t…
- The wide political diversity in the resistance proved extremely problematical.
- Assessing the magnitude of these conflicting variables and their impact on management motivation is clearly problematical.
- The use of tree rings to measure past temperature - properly known as dendrochronology - has long been problematical. The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
- Now because all is here gradually incorporated with the understanding -- inasmuch as in the first place we judge problematically; then accept assertorically our judgement as true; lastly, affirm it as inseparably united with the understanding, that is, as necessary and apodeictical -- we may safely reckon these three functions of modality as so many momenta of thought. The Critique of Pure Reason