Adjectives that collocate with PROBLEM (Sorted by collocation rank)
health (89), main (89), major (87), big (83), social (77), common (75), financial (72), heart (71), environmental (70), technical (69), drug (66), serious (65), legal (65), growing (63), back (63), practical (58), complex (57), housing (56), central (56), difficult (55), great (55), little (55), immediate (53), physical (52), sexual (51), long-term (49), psychological (49), mathematical (49), perennial (49), basic (48), emotional (48), knee (47), acute (44), long-standing (42), simple (41), minor (41), urgent (37), behavioural (37), economic (36), pressing (35), complicated (33), attitude (33), enormous (31), grave (30), insurmountable (29), intractable (29), thorny (28), knotty (27), drink (24), easy (22), insuperable (12), petty (12), insoluble (7),
Adjectives that collocate with PROBLEM (Sorted by alphabetical order)
acute (44), attitude (33), back (63), basic (48), behavioural (37), big (83), central (56), common (75), complex (57), complicated (33), difficult (55), drink (24), drug (66), easy (22), economic (36), emotional (48), enormous (31), environmental (70), financial (72), grave (30), great (55), growing (63), health (89), heart (71), housing (56), immediate (53), insoluble (7), insuperable (12), insurmountable (29), intractable (29), knee (47), knotty (27), legal (65), little (55), long-standing (42), long-term (49), main (89), major (87), mathematical (49), minor (41), perennial (49), petty (12), practical (58), pressing (35), psychological (49), physical (52), serious (65), sexual (51), simple (41), social (77), technical (69), thorny (28), urgent (37),
Last edited April 17, 2012
