628 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹˌɒbə͡lmˈatɪk], [ pɹˌɒbə‍lmˈatɪk], [ p_ɹ_ˌɒ_b_əl_m_ˈa_t_ɪ_k]

Similar words for problematic:

• borderline (adjective)
• chancy (adjective)
• complicated (adjective)
• debatable (adjective)
• difficult (adjective)
• doubtful (adjective)
• dubious (adjective)
• equivocal (adjective)
• fishy (adjective)
• hypothetical (adjective)
• iffy (adjective)
• implausible (adjective)
• moot (adjective)
• open (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• precarious (adjective)
• problematical (adjective)
• questionable (adjective)
• shaky (adjective)
• suspect (adjective)
• suspicious (adjective)
• tricky (adjective)
• troublesome (adjective)
• unapt (adjective)
• unconceivable (adjective)
• unsettled (adjective)
• unsure (adjective)
• vague (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• problematical (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for problematic

Synonyms for Problematic:

• adj.

  • borderline (adjective)
  • unclassifiable.
  • chancy (adjective)
  • Fluctuant.
  • complicated (adjective)
  • puzzling,
  • hi tech,
  • wheels within wheels,
  • hi-tech,
  • involved,
  • gasser,
  • mega factor.
  • debatable (adjective)
  • betwixt between,
  • touch go,
  • the jurys out,
  • most contestable,
  • jurys out,
  • the jury out,
  • more contestable,
  • jury out,
  • between rock hard place,
  • bone contention,
  • jury's out,
  • between sixes sevens.
  • difficult (adjective)
  • immense,
  • up-stream,
  • not easy,
  • easier said than done,
  • Difficile,
  • no picnic,
  • backbreaker,
  • Operose,
  • effortful,
  • painful,
  • upstream,
  • galling.
  • doubtful (adjective)
  • dis-reputable,
  • in-securer,
  • un-stablest,
  • far fetched,
  • un-easy,
  • in conclusive,
  • un easy,
  • un easiest,
  • un-confirmed,
  • in-securest,
  • in-distinct,
  • in-secure,
  • most doubtable,
  • hazy,
  • most impugnable,
  • impugnable,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • un-stabler,
  • in distinct,
  • more doubtable,
  • un-easier,
  • in-conclusive,
  • dis reputable,
  • un easier,
  • in secure,
  • un stablest,
  • un stable,
  • un-stable,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • in securest,
  • unconfirmed,
  • un-easiest,
  • un stabler,
  • in securer,
  • un confirmed,
  • more impugnable,
  • uneasy.
  • dubious (adjective)
  • dis inclined,
  • un-trustier,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un convinced,
  • un dependable,
  • mis-trustful,
  • un-convinced,
  • un-assured,
  • most unassured,
  • mis trustful,
  • fly by night,
  • un likelier,
  • un likeliest,
  • most unconvinced,
  • untrustier,
  • more unconvinced,
  • un-trustiest,
  • un reliable,
  • un trustier,
  • un-likelier,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-likely,
  • more trustless,
  • un assured,
  • dis-inclined,
  • un trustiest,
  • un-trusty,
  • un likely,
  • un trustworthy,
  • un-dependable,
  • mistrustful,
  • un-likeliest,
  • untrustiest,
  • un trusty,
  • more unassured,
  • most trustless.
  • equivocal (adjective)
  • Amphibological,
  • clear as mud,
  • unexplicit,
  • muzzy,
  • with mixed feelings.
  • fishy (adjective)
  • funnier.
  • hypothetical (adjective)
  • Postulated,
  • most postulated,
  • provisory,
  • more presupposed,
  • most pretending,
  • putative,
  • more stochastic,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • pre supposed,
  • pre-supposed,
  • hypothetical,
  • most stochastic,
  • more pretending,
  • more conjecturable,
  • pre-tending,
  • most presupposed,
  • hypo thetical,
  • most refutable,
  • more concocted,
  • most concocted,
  • pre tending,
  • more refutable,
  • most conjecturable,
  • stochastic,
  • more postulated.
  • iffy (adjective)
  • in lap of gods.
  • implausible (adjective)
  • in-conceivable,
  • in conceivable,
  • re achier,
  • reachiest,
  • un substantial,
  • for birds,
  • full holes,
  • re-achy,
  • in-credible,
  • un reasonable,
  • in credible,
  • wont wash,
  • re-achier,
  • re achy,
  • un believable,
  • un-believable,
  • full of holes,
  • un-substantial,
  • re achiest,
  • un-reasonable,
  • incredible,
  • un convincing,
  • un-convincing,
  • wont hold water,
  • reachier,
  • re-achiest.
  • moot (adjective)
  • open debate,
  • un resolved,
  • un-resolved.
  • open (adjective)
  • yet be decided,
  • yet to be decided.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • equivocal,
  • hanging by thread,
  • pendent,
  • implausible,
  • suspicious,
  • paradoxical,
  • Doubtable,
  • dubious,
  • Trustless,
  • vague,
  • rootless,
  • reachy,
  • fishy,
  • Controvertible,
  • contestable,
  • tricky,
  • won't hold water,
  • chancy,
  • rings untrue,
  • wimpy,
  • up for discussion,
  • the jury's out,
  • problematical,
  • complicated,
  • unproven,
  • open to doubt,
  • in a quandary,
  • out on limb,
  • between rock and hard place,
  • unconfident,
  • open to question,
  • debatable,
  • Infestive,
  • between sixes and sevens,
  • difficult,
  • Unapt,
  • unsure,
  • for the birds,
  • on thin ice,
  • under advisement,
  • doubtful,
  • open,
  • touch and go,
  • imprecise,
  • precarious,
  • out-standing,
  • unconvinced,
  • Conjecturable,
  • under examination,
  • out of line,
  • unsettled,
  • untrusty,
  • up for grabs,
  • open to debate,
  • questionable,
  • won't wash,
  • refutable,
  • at issue,
  • in dispute,
  • not kosher,
  • unassured,
  • suspect,
  • betwixt and between,
  • disputable,
  • troublesome,
  • hard to believe,
  • unfixed,
  • borderline.
  • precarious (adjective)
  • out a limb,
  • un steadiest,
  • pre-carious,
  • out limb,
  • un safe,
  • un-safest,
  • hanging by a thread,
  • un healthiest,
  • un steadier,
  • un-safe,
  • most dynamite,
  • more dynamite,
  • un-safer,
  • un steady,
  • un healthy,
  • un safer,
  • un safest,
  • un healthier,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un-healthy,
  • pre carious,
  • un-steadier.
  • problematical (adjective)
  • clear as dishwater,
  • in explicit,
  • in-explicit.
  • questionable (adjective)
  • more paradoxical,
  • most controvertible,
  • open doubt,
  • hard believe,
  • un defined,
  • pro visional,
  • most unproven,
  • most paradoxical,
  • more controvertible,
  • un-defined,
  • un-proven,
  • un proven,
  • more unproven.
  • shaky (adjective)
  • unsupported,
  • not dependable,
  • not reliable.
  • suspect (adjective)
  • suspected.
  • suspicious (adjective)
  • re aching,
  • un usual,
  • un-usual,
  • out line,
  • un-commoner,
  • un commonest,
  • re-aching,
  • un common,
  • un-common,
  • un commoner.
  • tricky (adjective)
  • quirky.
  • troublesome (adjective)
  • in festive,
  • most infestive,
  • in tractable,
  • in-tractable,
  • in convenient,
  • more vexing,
  • up setting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • up-setting,
  • un-governable,
  • most harassing,
  • in-convenient,
  • most vexing,
  • Harassing,
  • most murder,
  • in-festive,
  • more infestive,
  • more murder,
  • dis quieting,
  • more harassing.
  • unapt (adjective)
  • un apter,
  • un aptest,
  • un-aptest,
  • un-apter.
  • unconceivable (adjective)
  • un-conceivable,
  • un conceivable.
  • unsettled (adjective)
  • more unfixed,
  • most waffling,
  • un settled,
  • over due,
  • out standing,
  • more waffling,
  • in arrears,
  • un-paid,
  • over-due,
  • more pendent,
  • un fixed,
  • most unfixed,
  • un paid,
  • unpaid,
  • un-determined,
  • un-settled,
  • un-fixed.
  • unsure (adjective)
  • in quandary,
  • wimpiest,
  • un-sure,
  • un sure,
  • most unconfident,
  • un-confident,
  • un confident,
  • more unconfident,
  • dis trustful,
  • more rootless,
  • most rootless,
  • dis-trustful.
  • vague (adjective)
  • most generalized,
  • in-explicable,
  • be-wildering,
  • mis understood,
  • illdefined,
  • more generalized,
  • un-specified,
  • in explicable,
  • un known,
  • un specified,
  • most bewildering,
  • un-known,
  • more blurred,
  • more bewildering,
  • most imprecise,
  • mis-understood,
  • unspecified,
  • be wildering,
  • ill defined.

• n.

  •
  • embarrassing,
  • adverse.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • another,
  • hard-won,
  • challenging,
  • rare,
  • fiddly,
  • advanced,
  • shag,
  • thorny,
  • testing,
  • insurmountable,
  • strenuous,
  • devilish,
  • hard going,
  • fierce,
  • exacting,
  • jump,
  • hot,
  • much,
  • heavy going,
  • insupportable,
  • tax,
  • herculean,
  • awkwardly,
  • stern,
  • intractable,
  • ambitious,
  • insoluble,
  • painstaking,
  • devil,
  • baffling,
  • knackering,
  • burdensome,
  • despair,
  • backbreaking,
  • house,
  • hard-fought,
  • uncertain,
  • murder,
  • unplayable,
  • shattering,
  • elusive,
  • knotty,
  • work,
  • stubborn,
  • gruelling,
  • laborious,
  • picnic,
  • enigmatic,
  • taxing,
  • push,
  • toughen,
  • shitty,
  • awkward,
  • wearing,
  • arduous,
  • schlep,
  • irreconcilable,
  • Fatiguing,
  • exhausting,
  • rigorous,
  • unsolved,
  • Fiendish,
  • hard,
  • punishing,
  • killing,
  • onerous,
  • joke,
  • obdurate,
  • Challenged,
  • severe,
  • demanding,
  • labour-intensive,
  • vexed,
  • high-pressure,
  • unwieldy,
  • tiring,
  • too,
  • touchy,
  • impossible,
  • tortured,
  • formidable,
  • uphill,
  • unresolved,
  • sticky,
  • production,
  • murky,
  • challenge,
  • blood,
  • tough,
  • wearying,
  • begin,
  • sensitivity,
  • sensitive,
  • severely,
  • obstinate,
  • the Holy Grail,
  • ticklish,
  • laboured.
  • problematical (noun)
  • study at doubtful.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • contested,
  • obstructive,
  • divisive,
  • costly,
  • fraught,
  • self-defeating,
  • amiss,
  • expensive,
  • murphy's law,
  • punitive,
  • contentious,
  • clouded,
  • schismatic,
  • offending,
  • fractious,
  • intrusive,
  • invidious,
  • dubitable,
  • Mootable,
  • problem,
  • provocative,
  • disruptive,
  • tendentious.
  •
  • corrosive,
  • exceptionable,
  • incendiary,
  • rogue,
  • mischievous,
  • unclear,
  • inconclusive,
  • inflammatory,
  • iffy,
  • undesirable,
  • indeterminate.
  •
  • ambiguous,
  • crippling,
  • indecisive.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • cryptic,
  • shakable,
  • abstruse,
  • dismaying,
  • ridiculous,
  • illogical,
  • unthinkable,
  • unpredictable,
  • nasty,
  • improbable,
  • suppositional,
  • puzzled,
  • inconceivable,
  • undecided,
  • inconvenient,
  • perilous,
  • subtle,
  • ambivalent,
  • hairy,
  • enigmatical,
  • complex,
  • unearthly,
  • ruffianly,
  • convoluted,
  • mystifying,
  • rugged,
  • vexatious,
  • in doubt,
  • niggling,
  • thin,
  • tight,
  • tall,
  • incongruous,
  • controversial,
  • preposterous,
  • perplexing,
  • confusing,
  • ungodly,
  • incredulous,
  • snarled,
  • conjectural,
  • scabrous,
  • gnarly,
  • indefinite,
  • recondite,
  • unconvincing,
  • undetermined,
  • risky,
  • disconcerting,
  • moot,
  • confused,
  • knotted,
  • unsteady,
  • gnarled,
  • dangerous,
  • polemical,
  • dodgy,
  • profound,
  • Unconceivable,
  • unreliable,
  • tortuous,
  • conditional,
  • in the balance,
  • insecure,
  • upsetting,
  • incomprehensible,
  • bewildering,
  • slippery,
  • challengeable,
  • contradictory,
  • in question,
  • knobbed,
  • byzantine,
  • unconcluded,
  • perturbing,
  • dicey,
  • oxymoronic,
  • disputed,
  • hazardous,
  • prickly,
  • inconsistent,
  • confounding,
  • critical,
  • thick,
  • pending,
  • unstable,
  • nettlesome,
  • Questioned,
  • tangled,
  • Bothering,
  • arguable,
  • speculative,
  • unbelievable,
  • unimaginable,
  • deniable,
  • confutative,
  • Mistakable,
  • confutable,
  • worrying,
  • self-contradictory,
  • polemic,
  • unanswered,
  • disturbing,
  • delicate,
  • cryptical,
  • Discomposing,
  • wavering,
  • mysterious,
  • absurd,
  • obscure,
  • Confuted,
  • labyrinthine,
  • anybody's guess,
  • doubted,
  • shaky,
  • irresolute,
  • conflicting,
  • treacherous,
  • shady,
  • vacillating,
  • intricate,
  • touch-and-go,
  • Distracting,
  • trying,
  • beyond belief.

Paraphrases for Problematic:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    difficult, problematical.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    problematique.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    problems.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    alarming, arduous, awkward, burdensome, contentious, critical, daunting, debatable, defective, delicate, disputable, disputed, disruptive, disturbing, doubtful, dubious, elusive, embarrassing, hard, ill, impractical, inconvenient, laborious, objectionable, onerous, painful, precarious, serious, sticking, straightforward, tough, toxic, uncertain, unfortunate, worrisome, worrying, wrong, challenges, questions, problem-solving.
  • Proper noun, singular
    challenges.
  • Noun, plural
    hotspots.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    challenging, complex, complicated, controversial, cumbersome, dangerous, difficulty, intractable, problem, questionable, sensitive, thorny, tricky, troubled, troublesome, troubling.
  • Proper noun, singular
    problem, problems.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    problem.