喜樂美語
  1. 1有問題的、棘手的（校園與網路也可指某說法不妥、可能傷人）

    Something problematic involves problems: it is awkward, messy, or hard to deal with. A plan can be problematic if it will cause trouble. That plainer use is still the core, and it is not always a moral attack — it can just mean “this will be difficult.” Though actually, in universities, media, and online argument, people also use it when something may hurt or leave someone out, or sits on a shaky moral line: “that joke is problematic.” That second use is newer and more loaded. Some speakers reach for it instead of saying clearly what is wrong; other speakers get tired of it for that reason. As a noun, a problematic is rare and academic: a bundle of questions a field keeps worrying at. For , the adjective is the one that matters.

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Middle French problématique, from Late Latin problematicus, from Greek πρόβλημα 'problem'.

借自中古法文 problématique，源自希臘文「問題」一字。

Wiktionary

組成Borrowed from Middle French problématique, from Late Latin problematicus, from Ancient Greek προβληματικός (problēmatikós), from πρόβλημα (próblēma, “problem”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). By surface analysis, problem + -atic.

同家族的字

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

problematicadj/ˌpɹɒb.ləˈmæt.ɪk/

  • 1

    Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):

    • 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.
    • However, estimating what consumers will pay in the future is problematic.
  • 2

    Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):

    • 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.
    • a problematic analysis
  • 3

    human-sciencessciencessocial-sciencePosing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):

  • 4

    datedhuman-scienceslogicmathematicsOnly affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.

problematicnoun/ˌpɹɒb.ləˈmæt.ɪk/

  • 1

    A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.

    • The seemingly intractable problematic of essentialism versus antiessentialism and primordialism versus circumstantialism endemic to identity analysis today.
    • However, for those who come to India’s railway history for the first time, perhaps via knowledge of other countries’ railway histories with which they want to make India-based comparisons or in pursuit of a particular problematic—for example the role of railways in economic development—this chapter may prove useful.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。