borderline
IPA: bˈɔrdɝɫaɪn
noun
- (countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.
- (countable) An individual who has borderline personality disorder.
- (uncountable) Short for borderline personality disorder. [(psychiatry) Behavior that borders both neurosis and psychosis.]
verb
- (transitive) To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.
adjective
- Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
- Showing bad taste.
- Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
adverb
- Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent.
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Examples of "borderline" in Sentences
- The prose is borderline passable.
- Maybe not, but this is a borderline.
- It really appears to be borderline phobic.
- But then there are names that are borderline.
- His IQ falls near the borderline of mental retardation.
- It is borderline offensive and borderline personal insult.
- An IQ of 70 in the US implies borderline mental retardation.
- There is borderline crap, and then there is crossing the borderline.
- Am I a borderline addict, sublimating TV with hours of aimless hyperlinking
- A borderline example would be stinginess and amassing of large sums of money.
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