problematic

IPA: prɑbɫʌmˈætɪk

Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
(sociology) Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).
(logic, dated) Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.

Examples of "problematic" in Sentences

But with Apple's service, "it now becomes Apple's relationship and Apple's data," which she described as "problematic for us."
Her concern with the Apple model is that "it now becomes Apple's relationship and Apple's data," which she described as "problematic for us."
In Genres of the Credit Economy, I developed a historical argument to show that, in periods in which what I call the problematic of representation became visible, economic, political, and epistemological uncertainty often ensued.
This is why the modern broken world only sees the problematic: the ˜problematic™ is that which can be addressed and solved with a technique, e.g., changing a flat tire on an automobile or downloading security software to fix a virus on one's computer.
I find the term problematic only in that I think all fiction should be experimental: no fiction writer should rest satisfied that prose fiction has settled into its final and most appropriate form such that only reiterations of the form with fresh "content" is needed.
But a second aspect of “feminism” (I find the term problematic because of this very dichotomy) that seems at least as important is fostering values that challenge that power structure, and which for whatever natural and cultural reasons are loosely (though only loosely) associated with femininity.