problematick

Adjective

problematic (comparative more problematic, superlative most problematic)

1. Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
   • 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.1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition...
2. Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
   • The strangeness of hiring undocumented Mexican women as domestics, many of whom were no older than fifteen, seemed strange to me. It was this strangeness that raised the topic of domestic service as a question and made problematic what had previously been taken for granted.1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1

   Synonyms:

   doubtful, dubious, questionable, controversial, uncertain

3. Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).
4. (dated) Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.

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