Meaning

3 senses
  1. Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.

    I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications.

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  2. Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.

    Your borderline remarks about my aunt’s dress destroyed my evening.

  3. Exhibiting or characteristic of borderline personality disorder.

More definitions
  • of questionable or minimal quality

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Tom is borderline paranoid.

    ruТом - пограничный параноик. — marafon

  2. Layla suffered from borderline personality disorder.

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  3. Mennad was diagnosed with borderline personality.

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  4. Yanni struggles with borderline personality disorder.

  5. He wants to experience borderline situations.

Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
not clearly on one side or other of a boundary:

Origin

From border + line.

From border + line.

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Forms

more borderline, most borderline
Comparativemore borderline Lesson
Superlativemost borderline Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • of questionable or minimal quality:marginal

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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