Borderline

//ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.

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

  3. 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[…]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of questionable or minimal quality wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent. not-comparable

    "He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake."

Noun
  1. 1
    A boundary or accepted division; a border. countable

    "She lives on the borderline between reality and madness."

  2. 2
    a line that indicates a boundary wordnet
  3. 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. 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 […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From border + line.

Etymology 2

From border + line.

Etymology 3

From border + line.

Etymology 4

From border + line.

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