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Problematical   /prˌɑbləmˈætɪkəl/   Listen
Problematical

adjective
1.
Open to doubt or debate.  Synonyms: debatable, problematic.
2.
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.  Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, tough.  "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast" , "A problematic situation at home"






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"Problematical" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought some of the excitement will be gone, and the struggle of the 'survival of the fittest' will become less problematical," ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor

... General Freire's information was correct, there was evidently a desire to restore San Martin to the Empire of Peru! when possession could be got of the squadron, and he in return had deluded General O'Higgins into the plot by promise of support. Whether this was so in reality is problematical, but there is General Freire's letter, for the first time published, and the Chilian people can thence draw ...
— Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, - from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 • Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald

... shall come to London must always be problematical like all my movements, and of course this sickness of Bob's makes it still more uncertain. If all goes well I may have to go to the country and take care of him in his convalescence. But I shall come shortly. Do not hurry to write ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... we found the mosses all drained, and the very existence of sometime moss-troopers would have seemed problematical, but for the remains of Gilnockie,—the tower of Johnnie Armstrong, so pathetically recalled in one of the finest of the Scottish ballads. Its size, as well as that of other keeps, towers, and castles, whose ruins ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... that has mocked thousands like himself. If he could have gone to an asylum and surrounded his infirm will by every possible safeguard, he might have been carried through the inevitable period of horrible depression; but even then the habit had become so confirmed that his chances would have been problematical, for experience sadly proves that confirmed opium-consumers are ever ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe


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