Sekirov Dictionary

borderline

/ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/

adjective 3
noun 3
adverb 1
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 1

adjective3

•
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.

noun3

•
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[…] — 2001
•
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 […] — 1995

adverb1

•
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!

verb1

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

forms

borderlined · borderlining · borderlines · more borderline · most borderline

Phrases with borderline

borderline case
A person, thing, or situation that is difficult to classify.

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