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problematic English

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What does problematic mean?
Definitions in simple English

problematic

If something is problematic, it is causing a problem. Rush hour at the train station was very problematic.

problematic

open to doubt or debate If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic (= baffling, knotty) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe a baffling problem I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast a problematic situation at home

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Simple sentences

This is going to be problematic.
Is that problematic for you?
Your boyfriend is a problematic person, but that's not a good enough reason to give up or break off your relationship.

Movie subtitles

Whether or not you'll succeed is problematic.
On first reading it's evident that the film lacks a problematic, or a philosophical premise.
Isn't this a symbol of our problematic society.
They're problematic children, they didn't want to speak.
To escort the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to a peace summit is problematic, at best.
But its meaning is problematic.
I can imagine. The light would make colour selection problematic.
I find this very problematic.
This could prove problematic.
It's problematic, John.
Buffy, maintaining a normal social life as a slayer is problematic at best.
This whole situation is problematic enough as it is but the suspect was also being trained in attack probes.
I wish I could make exceptions, but that would be unfair and problematic.
I was going to say that parents can be quite problematic.
I am not as problematic as you may think.
Many financers aren't in favour of films that are problematic.
It's problematic for precision work, but you're a salesman.
A very problematic area, all that juvenile delinquency.
And as a child, you experience everything much more intensely, even when you haven't been in problematic situations yourself, or difficulties, like so many other people have.
The light would make colour selection problematic.
Whether or not you will succeed is problematic.
Is it problematic?
That's a tad problematic.
Sagiv, understand: when I'm approving an operation like this now with this problematic situation with the Peace I'm considering a million other problems of which you're totally not aware.
I understand it's problematic. There'd be no judicial review or legislative oversight, or even, for that matter legal finding of fact, but..
Yea, yea the stomach thing was a little problematic.
Katie. well, I'm sure you know that's a bit more problematic.
Too bad about that Sonya. She was cute, but problematic.
It was problematic.
That's problematic.
Even if we close our eyes, we'd require union integration. And that is problematic!

News and current affairs

In fact, excessively constraining rules of origin have proved problematic for some of the EU's previous recognition agreements, such as those governing professional-services standards.
Political arrangements are somewhat more problematic.
Legitimacy is even more problematic regarding recognition, which implies a feeling of community and attachment.
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
Perhaps only one-third of the total volume of loans is problematic; the rest may or will continue to perform.
Efforts to make university affordable for all are even more problematic.
Leasing software and hardware, as IBM initially did, is problematic.
Given the legacy of problematic loans and projects funded by Western-led infrastructure banks, it is reasonable to ask whether another one is needed, as opposed to reforming existing institutions.
Meanwhile, problematic demand-side policies are also in crisis, impeding the deployment of existing renewable-energy technologies.
In order to meet this demand, meat producers have had to adopt an extremely problematic approach to raising livestock.
The closer to zero they fall, the more problematic monetary policy becomes.
Less damaging, yet problematic, is the election - as in Poland - of a minority government that ruthlessly pursues its members' personal interests and breaks all promises of cooperation made before the polls.
Turkey is, of course, highly problematic.
But selective responses to the actions of dictatorships can be problematic and counterproductive.
The program's mission - to help guide the political, social, and economic transitions of neighboring states - is not inherently problematic; the problem lies in the way that the mission has been interpreted and pursued.
Clear-cutting of old growth forests in the mountains bordering Pakistan may prove as problematic.
Equally problematic, the MDGs implicitly assume that we know how to achieve development targets, and that only resources and political will are missing.
This is all the more problematic at a time when the world's states and people are more intertwined than ever, as ideas, information, finance, migrants, and problems flow ever more seamlessly across borders.
Even if Egypt avoids control by religious extremists, democracy's two-part anatomy makes swift and smooth progress to a democratic system problematic.
Unfortunately, much of the debate about the disaster and its implications has been uninformed and problematic.
But the view that defending free speech imposes a duty to disseminate specific content is deeply problematic.
Such a gamble is especially problematic for Japan.
More problematic, he has occasionally dissented publicly from Leung's various misguided policies.
Several factors make predicting the outcome even more problematic.
In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases.
The new law is not the only problematic policy that Peru's government has pursued.

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