borderline
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borderline
- /ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/ US
Where it comes from
From border + line.
adjective more borderline · most borderline · border-line
- 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.
- Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste. Your borderline remarks about my aunt’s dress destroyed my evening.
- Exhibiting or characteristic of borderline personality disorder. She clearly has borderline and narcissistic features and she meets the criteria for a rapid cycling bipolar disorder, as well as for a generalized anxiety disorder. She has a severe binge eating disorder and has gained 65 pounds since[…]
adverb border-line
- Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent. He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake.
noun borderlines · border-line
- A boundary or accepted division; a border. She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.
- Ellipsis of borderline personality disorder The four overlapping concepts of borderline were as follows : (1) A residual model […] (2) An affective disorder model, which considered BPD as an affective spectrum illness displaying prominent[…]
- A person who has borderline personality disorder. As an example of their affective profile, borderlines are set apart from passive aggressives by having more marked social anxiety […] and greater sensitivity […]
verb borderlines · borderlining · borderlined · border-line
- To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: delimitation, minimal, minimum, border, marginal, boundary line, distinction, separating, limited, limitation, limiting, marginalized, limit, restricted, deadline, restrict
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adj not clearly on one side or other of a boundary
| हिन्दी | सीमा रेखा sīmā rekhā |
|---|---|
| Français | à la limite, limite |
| Deutsch | grenzwertig |
| Ελληνικά | οριακός oriakós |
adj of questionable taste
| Español | borderline |
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adj exhibiting borderline personality disorder
| Español | borderline |
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noun boundary
| Español | frontera, línea divisoria, límite, confín |
|---|---|
| Português | fronteira |
| Français | frontière |
| Deutsch | Grenzlinie |
noun person who has borderline personality disorder
| Español | borderline |
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title = {borderline},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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