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Problematical

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Doubtful or disputed.
  2. 2
    Dubious or ambiguous.

    "The salt seer attentively listened, accompanying the Foretopman's recital with queer twitchings of his wrinkles and problematical little sparkles of his small ferret eyes."

Adjective
  1. 1
    making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe wordnet
  2. 2
    open to doubt or debate wordnet

Etymology

From Latin problēmaticus + -al. By surface analysis, problematic + -al.

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