Word Meanings - PROBLEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity. Note: Problem differs from theorem in this, that a problem is something to be done, as to bisect

Additional info about word: PROBLEM

Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity. Note: Problem differs from theorem in this, that a problem is something to be done, as to bisect a triangle, to describe a circle, etc.; a theorem is something to be proved, as that all the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. Plane problem , a problem that can be solved by the use of the rule and compass. -- Solid problem , a problem requiring in its geometric solution the use of a conic section or higher curve. (more info) 1. A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROBLEM)

• Riddle
• Puzzle
• enigma
• ambiguity
• problem
• paradox
• Sum
• Aggregate
• total
• example
• whole
• amount
• quantity
• collection
• substance
• gist
• tenor
• height
• completion
• drift
• bearing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROBLEM)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to PROBLEM)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• PARADOXURE
  Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat . See Musang.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• TENORRHAPHY
  Suture of a tendon.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• RIDDLER
  One who riddles .
• PROBLEMATIC; PROBLEMATICAL
  Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• TOTALIZATOR
  A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.
• BEAR'S-BREECH
  See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• GRIDDLE
  W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
• ANT-BEAR
  An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.