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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
problematic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ However, the addition is almost as problematic as it is important.
▪ However, it is often regarded as problematic whether or not animals have mental representations, or use symbolic systems or languages.
▪ The assumption is that it is relatively more fruitful to regard our conformity, rather than our criminality, as problematic.
▪ Third, we are, inpart at least, talking about an activity which appears to be defined as problematic by users themselves.
▪ In other words, it treats as problematic what both the disease and moral models take for granted.
▪ Partly because of this fact, dependent conditionals have been taken as problematic.
▪ This has not consisted simply of middle-class reformers defining the working-class family as problematic, for which there is a long tradition.
▪ While conflict is taken as given, it is also regarded as problematic.
highly
▪ Exercising that collective responsibility remains highly problematic.
▪ Clearly researching these areas is highly problematic, especially if details about the amount of food eaten are required.
▪ And yet the linkage of colour with verbal expression is highly problematic.
▪ This is usually thought a highly problematic combination.
▪ As we saw in Chapter 1 and as every sensible student of crime knows by now, criminal statistics are highly problematic data.
▪ Political control Effective staff management in education is highly problematic because of the fragmented and diversified centres of control.
more
▪ What is actually meant by intention is more problematic, and will be approached in stages.
▪ Relationships between men and women have never been more problematic.
▪ But there was another side to Farah, one that was perhaps more problematic for the Shah.
▪ Too much government, however, is more problematic.
▪ Minority returns-to areas where they will be in a minority-are more problematic.
▪ There are other areas of the traditional feminine economy; however, that are even more problematic.
▪ To follow the argument beyond this level, however, is more problematic.
▪ Vote differs from poll results Finding out what Latino voters think about bilingual education is more problematic.
most
▪ The most problematic of these, in view of their diversity, were the first and the last.
▪ This is exactly what seems most problematic here.
▪ The most prominent and, as we had experienced, most problematic symbol of the Legion's past was the singing.
▪ The categories discussed and exemplified above are among the most problematic in translation but are by no means the only ones that cause difficulty.
▪ The casting of an actress to play Susan was the most problematic of the three companion characters.
particularly
▪ Social rights are particularly problematic when the issue of their legal protection arises.
▪ When these identities conflict, as they so often do, the experience is particularly painful, and the resolution particularly problematic.
▪ June was a particularly problematic month.
▪ Hostility and rigidity are particularly problematic because they seldom deliver the desired result over the long term.
▪ Formulating demands around housing design and quality are particularly problematic for feminists.
■ NOUN
nature
▪ It is important to understand the problematic nature of historical evidence, its advantages and failings, its certainties and its contentions.
▪ Amalgamating their insights produces the following factors which indicate the problematic nature of teams in schools: 1.
▪ Federman's own novels thus revolve around the problematic nature of their own survival.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Enforcing this law has been problematic.
▪ It is important to understand the problematic nature of historical evidence.
▪ The Foreign Minister said that relations between the two countries are "highly problematic".
▪ The new salary scale remains a problematic area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Establishing risk factors which identify those at an elevated risk of experiencing dementia is problematic because of multi-causality.
▪ Free inquiry within the liberation movements, then, led to a deep questioning of problematic assumptions in the modern political worldview.
▪ Hostility and rigidity are particularly problematic because they seldom deliver the desired result over the long term.
▪ Instead, they pursue a novel identity strategy designed to side-step the potentially problematic issue of nationality.
▪ Obviously the magistrates were trying to take more care with the girls before them whom they saw as doubly problematic.
▪ This could have been problematic among competitors, but was openly aired and dealt with by the group.
▪ This is problematic for cultural arbiters such as I, in various ways.
▪ Two administrators were fired as a result of problematic operations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Problematic

Problematic \Prob`lem*at"ic\, Problematical \Prob`lem*at"ic*al\, a. [L. problematicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. probl['e]matique.] Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.

Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
problematic

c.1600, "doubtful, questionable," from French problematique (15c.), from Late Latin problematicus, from Greek problematikos "pertaining to a problem," from problematos, genitive of problema (see problem). Specific sense in logic, differentiating what is possible from what is necessarily true, is from 1610s. Related: Problematical (1560s); problematically.

Wiktionary
problematic

a. 1 posing a problem; difficult to overcome or solve 2 debatable; open to doubt 3 unresolved or dubious 4 doubtful or uncertain in its outcome n. (context chiefly in the plural English) A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study

WordNet
problematic

  1. adj. open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic" [syn: debatable, problematical]

  2. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" [syn: baffling, knotty, problematical]

Wikipedia
Problematic (album)

Problematic is the eighth studio album by pop punk band All. It was recorded at the band's own recording studio, The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, and released on Epitaph Records in 2000.

Problematic (song)

"Problematic" is the name of Five Star's very first single, released in October 1983.

The song was performed on BBC TV's Pebble Mill at One show, which brought the band to public attention. According to Five Star's father/manager, Buster Pearson, RCA records were on the phone offering the band a record contract before the end of their performance.

Five Star were asked to perform "Problematic" on the show as that particular edition was focusing on unemployment, trying to find work, and the problems that come with it. The song was simply about a young girl leaving school, trying to find work.

Although credited to Five Star, the b-side "Big Funk" is an instrumental track written, arranged and produced by Buster Pearson with no involvement from the band members. He had already released the track as a single in 1973 credited to the Buster Pearson Band.

"Problematic" failed to chart in the UK.

7” Single:

1. Problematic

2. Big Funk

12” Single:

1. Problematic (Extended Version)

2. Problematic

3. Big Funk

The 12" single and a picture disc version of the 7" single were re-pressed by the Five Star Fan Club in 1989 and sold to members.

The 7" and 12" versions of "Problematic" were released as digital downloads on 18 July 2011.

Usage examples of "problematic".

G appended as an axiom, a new problematic proposition can be constructed for that system.

Chekhov, it is everywhere problematic, its very pervasiveness the symptom of a pervasive cultural problem.

Chances are we would retain a residual naval and air presence in Bahrain and Qatar, which are much less problematic because the people generally welcome U.

This issue is not nearly as problematic as some have made it out to be.

Standing up was always problematic, even on my best days, thanks to my lame leg.

Anything which would make it problematic for the Harpers Bizarre to spot us from overhead weighed in our favor.

Shadow think of Jackson Pollock, because it was less problematic to think of Jackson Pollock than to accept the alternative.

Somehow, they seemed pregnant with life, as though half-formed shapes were stirring in every problematic shadow, trying to capture my attention.

And there we were, two scared human orphans in the problematic Late Cretaceous.

Why the mammals would prevail after the long coexistence is problematic for any competition theory.

Until you can figure out why a particular violent crime was committed, it is going to be very difficult trying to come to meaningful conclusions regarding the behavior and personality of the UNSUB Even if you do catch him, it can still be very problematic prosecuting him successfully.

Even Carla, who had little sense of humor at the best of times and who was moreover distracted by the unexpected descent of the problematic, enigmatic Dulcie into an ordinary, silly five-year-old, even Carla began to grin at the two of them.

The problematic of Empire is determined in the first place by one simple fact: that there is world order.

Around these questions the problematic of Empire is completely open, not closed.

Throughout the course of our research we have found ourselves confronted with a classic problematic of political philosophy: the decline and fall of Empire.