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 .
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• 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.
• 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
  produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
• 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.