problem
a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,880 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 45,960 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved also: job she and her husband are having problemsit is always a job to contact him
- a question raised for consideration or solution our homework consisted of ten problems to solve
- a source of difficulty also: trouble one trouble after another delayed the jobwhat's the problem?
problem in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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My dream had solved part of the problem!
The story hunter · Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling · Chapter 1
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Even if there were a cancer cure that is only a part of the problem.
Now We Are Three · Joe L. Hensley · Chapter 1
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On the top of all his other troubles, Sanders had the problem of a stranger who had arrived unbidden.
Bosambo of the River · Edgar Wallace · Chapter 1
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Our own skipper solved the problem by ordering his men to throw up a twenty-foot wooden ladder--a fragile thing.
Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 · Various · Chapter 1
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It did not take Michael long to arrange his clothes; and then the problem of undoing the packing-cases presented itself.
Sinister Street, Vol. 2 · Compton MacKenzie · Chapter 1