borderline
Adjective
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Adjective
borderline
- 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.
- Showing bad taste.
- Your borderline remarks about my aunt's dress destroyed my evening.
- Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
- French: limite
borderline (not comparable)
- nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent
- He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake.
- I expected him to be super boring but he was actually borderline funny!
borderline (plural borderlines)
- A boundary or accepted division; a border.
- She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.
- An individual who has borderline personality disorder.
- 1995, Eugene E. Levitt, Edward Earl Gotts, The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales (page 80)
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- 1995, Eugene E. Levitt, Edward Earl Gotts, The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales (page 80)
- Portuguese: fronteira
borderline (borderlines, present participle borderlining; past and past participle borderlined)
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