Synonyms for problematic
ˌprɒb ləˈmæt ɪkprob·lem·at·ic

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1. debatable, problematic, problematicaladjective

   open to doubt or debate

   "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic"

   Synonyms:
   baffling, arguable, knotty, debatable, moot, tough, disputable, elusive, problematical

   Antonyms:
   unquestionable, easy

2. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, toughadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   subtle, gnarled, involved, knotty, problematical, debatable, ruffianly, bad, rugged, toughened, snarly, baffling, gnarly, hard, tangled, sturdy, knobbed, tough, knotted, elusive, tortuous, convoluted, snarled

   Antonyms:
   easy, unquestionable

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1. List of paraphrases for "problematic":

   problematical, troublesome, problem, difficult, problematique, challenging, questionable, issue, troubled

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1. Middletown Police Chief William McKenna:

   This particular batch may have had a mixture of several kinds of designer drug chemicals, making the health risks unpredictable and treatment to combat the effects, complex and problematic.

2. Peter Liese:

   I consider this decision to be problematic and recommend that European Union Member States do not repeat the process in the same way, a few weeks of thorough examination by the European Medicines Agency is better than a hasty emergency marketing authorisation of a vaccine.

3. Chuck Grassley:

   And worse, the administration cannot locate some evacuees with problematic records who were released into the United States before their background checks were completed.

4. Ajay Mathur:

   It's problematic for us to make that commitment at this point in time. It's certainly a stumbling block (to a deal), the entire prosperity of the world has been built on cheap energy. And suddenly we are being forced into higher cost energy. That's grossly unfair.

5. Ed Patru:

   If you accept the faulty premise that political contributions create a conflict of interest, then any amount is problematic, i don’t remember a single Democrat, citing conflicts of interest, recusing themselves from a vote on billionaires like Penny Pritzker.