problematic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French problématique, from Late Latin problematicus, from Ancient Greek προβληματικός (problēmatikós), from πρόβλημα (próblēma, “outjutting, barrier, problem”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “I throw, place before”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, place”). By surface analysis, problem + -atic.
Inflected forms:
form: more problematic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most problematic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: problematics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
pos: adj
examples: And the most problematic thing of all is that it is impossible for me even to know and tell you their names, unless one of them happens to be a playwright.
However, estimating what consumers will pay in the future is problematic.
The station is blessed with a cafe and staff accommodation, as it's an important crew changeover point, although this can be problematic when services are late.
gloss: Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
pos: adj
examples: The strangeness of hiring undocumented Mexican women as domestics, many of whom were no older than fifteen, seemed strange to me. It was this strangeness that raised the topic of domestic service as a question and made problematic what had previously been taken for granted.
a problematic analysis
it portends a problematic future for the movement
gloss: Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
pos: adj
gloss: Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.
pos: noun
examples: The seemingly intractable problematic of essentialism versus antiessentialism and primordialism versus circumstantialism endemic to identity analysis today.
However, for those who come to India’s railway history for the first time, perhaps via knowledge of other countries’ railway histories with which they want to make India-based comparisons or in pursuit of a particular problematic—for example the role of railways in economic development—this chapter may prove useful.
Synonyms: difficult
troublesome
complicated
complex
involved
Antonyms: unproblematic
Related words: problem
Derived words: metaproblematic
multiproblematic
nonproblematic
problematical
problematically
problematicity
problematicness
unproblematic
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: խնդրահարույց
roman: xndraharuycʻ
lang: Bulgarian
word: проблематичен
roman: problematičen
lang: Catalan
word: problemàtic
lang: Czech
word: problematický
lang: Danish
word: problematisk
lang: Dutch
word: problematisch
lang: Esperanto
word: problema
lang: Finnish
word: ongelmallinen
lang: Finnish
word: problemaattinen
lang: French
word: problématique
lang: Georgian
word: პრობლემატური
roman: ṗroblemaṭuri
lang: German
word: problematisch
lang: Greek
word: προβληματικός
roman: provlimatikós
lang: Hebrew
word: בעייתי
roman: ba'ayatí
lang: Hungarian
word: bajos
lang: Hungarian
word: problematikus
lang: Italian
word: problematico
lang: Latvian
word: problemātisks
lang: Māori
word: whakararu
lang: Norman
word: problièmatique
lang: Polish
word: problematyczny
lang: Romanian
word: problematic
lang: Russian
word: проблемати́чный
roman: problematíčnyj