Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
problematic .
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- adjective
doubtful ordisputed - adjective
dubious orambiguous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective open to doubt or debate
- adjective making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
Etymologies
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Examples
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Especially problematical is the fact that what is considered fraudulent is mainly
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But in this sense the conception of a noumenon is problematical, that is to say, it is the notion of that it that it is possible, nor that it is impossible, inasmuch as we do not know of any mode of intuition besides the sensuous, or of any other sort of conceptions than the categories -- a mode of intuition and a kind of conception neither of which is applicable to a non-sensuous object.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
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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 Chuck Wells 2009
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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.
Heroes (02/02/2009): "A Clear and Present Danger" Chuck Wells 2009
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And Lewis was a kind of problematical hero, because shortly thereafter he took his own life.
The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream 2001
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It is the only thing I have by me of any size, and is a kind of problematical work such as the good Germans like.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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It is with the tenderest touch that in his reminiscent record of this their last meeting he depicts her "problematical" nature, and pays his tribute to all that she had been to him. [
The Youth of Goethe Peter Hume Brown 1883
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How do you deal with obnoxious behavior, misbehaving in public or just been problematical?
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Anybody who could look at a map could have told you last November that this election cycle was going to be problematical for the Democrats; in fact, maps were drawn illustrating the opportunity.
Adam Nagourney’s failure of imagination. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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With the uptick in default rates, all of a sudden it became somewhat problematical whether it could continue to pay out that interest.
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