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US
/ˌpɹɑbɫəˈmætɪkəɫ/
]
[ 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.
- This is problematical however as the type genus for this group, Palaeochoerus from Oligocene-Miocene Africa and Europe, almost certainly is a suid proper and not a peccary, Old World or otherwise. Archive 2006-08-01
- Based on available information online, the next few episodes are a bit "problematical" and viewers will have to wait and see if this formerly "hot" series can right itself, before it completely falls apart. Archive 2009-02-01
- Focusing attention on the simple business of walking two blocks to her door was problematical, however. SACRAMENT
- Contact killers are therefore problematical, and we have to adopt a different technique.
- That's problematical as well, as it suggests that we sit on ground that's been either taken from the Gay and Straight identities, or that if the perception of these broadens we'll be squeezed out!
- Contact killers are therefore problematical, and we have to adopt a different technique.
- More important, the relation between class location and political allegiance is not linear and unproblematical.
- Other parts of the essay were more problematical.
- Since his descendants were in hiding, tracing a line of authority became problematical.
