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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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}, adverb
Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
problematical
adjective
1: open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic" [syn: {debatable}, {problematic}]
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}, {problematic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "problematical": a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, arguable, at issue, baffling, bewildering, beyond belief, bothering, confounding, confusing, confutable, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, disputable, distracting, disturbing, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, embarrassing, enigmatic, hard of belief, hard to believe, iffy, implausible, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, incredible, intricate, mistakable, moot, mysterious, mystifying, not deserving belief, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, perplexing, perturbing, preposterous, problematic, puzzling, questionable, refutable, ridiculous, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, upsetting
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