problematic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   open to doubt or debate

   If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic

2. 2
   adj

   Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.

   The seemingly intractable problematic of essentialism versus antiessentialism and primordialism versus circumstantialism endemic to identity analysis today.

4. 4
   adj

   making great mental demands

5. 5
   adj

   Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.

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.