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Borderline
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- 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."
- 2 Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.
"Your borderline remarks about my aunt’s dress destroyed my evening."
- 3 Exhibiting 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[…]"
- 1 of questionable or minimal quality wordnet
- 1 Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent. not-comparable
"He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake."
- 1 A boundary or accepted division; a border. countable
"She lives on the borderline between reality and madness."
- 2 a line that indicates a boundary wordnet
- 3 Ellipsis of borderline personality disorder. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
"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[…]"
- 4 A person who has borderline personality disorder. countable
"As an example of their affective profile, borderlines are set apart from passive aggressives by having more marked social anxiety […] and greater sensitivity […]"
- 1 To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to. transitive
Etymology
From border + line.
From border + line.
From border + line.
From border + line.
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