Pronunciation Adjective
- Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
- Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
- 2010, The Future of Energy Use:
- However, estimating what consumers will pay in the future is problematic.
- 2010, The Future of Energy Use:
- Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
- a problematic analysis
- it portends a problematic future for the movement
- Contributing (usually implicitly or subtly) to systemic discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia).
- 2015 April 10, Paige Tutt, [//www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/10/how-apples-new-multicultural-emojis-are-more-racist-than-before/ Apple’s new diverse emoji are even more problematic than before: Racialized emoji insert race into texts and tweets where it never would have arisen before]
- Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
- (posing a problem): difficult, troublesome, complicated, complex, involved
- (open to debate): doubtful, dubious, questionable, controversial, uncertain
- (contributing to systemic discrimination): offensive, politically incorrect, discriminatory, kyriarchal
- French: problématique
- German: problematisch
- Russian: проблемати́чный
- French: problématique
- Russian: проблемати́чный
problematic (plural problematics)
- (chiefly, in the plural) A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.
- French: problématique
- German: Problematik
- Russian: проблематика
- Spanish: problemática
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