borderline
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Definitions ofborderline
- A boundary or accepted division; a border.
Example: "She lives on the borderline between reality and madness."
- An individual who has borderline personality disorder.
- To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.
- Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
Example: "I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications."
- Showing bad taste.
Example: "Your borderline remarks about my aunt's dress destroyed my evening."
- Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
- Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent
Example: "He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake."
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