PROBLEMATICAL Synonyms

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• tangled in knots or snarls

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts

• a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

• a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

• (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

• a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

• difficult to analyze or understand

• inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits

• involving or likely to cause controversy

• exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury

• marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique

• easily broken or damaged or destroyed

• easily hurt

• developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

• of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• having the sticky properties of an adhesive

• moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body

• hot or warm and humid

• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

• covered with an adhesive material

• bristling with perplexities

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• not to be trusted

• having concealed difficulty

• marked by skill in deception

• causing difficulty or annoyance

• troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

• causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed

• open to doubt or debate

• open to argument or debate

• capable of being disproved

• difficult to describe

• skillful at eluding capture

• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe