It is the borderline cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.
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Borderline
//ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn//
Synonyms for "borderline" (49 found)
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Related words (24)
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5 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 11 languages.
Czech
2 entries- hraniční adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- hranice noun (boundary)
Dutch
4 entries- dubieus adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- grens adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- demarcatie noun (boundary)
- demarcatielijn noun (boundary)
Esperanto
1 entries- limlinia adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
Finnish
4 entries- epämääräinen adj (of questionable taste)
- rajoilla oleva adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- rimaa hipova adj (of questionable taste)
- raja noun (boundary)
French
3 entries- limite adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- à la limite adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- frontière noun (boundary)
Greek
2 entries- οριακός adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- οριακά adv (not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent)
Hindi
1 entries- सीमा रेखा adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
Hungarian
4 entries- kétséges adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
- ízetlen adj (of questionable taste)
- ízléstelen adj (of questionable taste)
- jóformán adv (not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent)
Polish
1 entries- pograniczny adj (not clearly on one side or other of a boundary)
Portuguese
1 entries- fronteira noun (boundary)
Spanish
4 entries- cuasi adv (not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent)
- confín noun (boundary)
- frontera noun (boundary)
- límite noun (boundary)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
It's borderline.
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You really ought to wash your hands of this borderline illegal work.
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Layla suffered from borderline personality disorder.
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