borderline

Meaning

Adj

1. Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
2. Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.
3. Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.

Adv

Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent.

Noun

1. (countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of borderline personality disorder.
3. (countable) A person who has borderline personality disorder.

Verb

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

Synonyms

boundary

border

frontier

boundary line

line

marginal

delimitation

bounds

equivocal

mete

demarcation line

footling

fringe

hem

humble

immaterial

inconsequential

inconsiderable

insignificant

lightweight

limit

little

low-level

lowly

margin

menial

minor

negligible

nickel-and-dime

outline

outskirts

paltry

periphery

profile

separatrix

small

small-time

form line

trivial

uncertain

unclear

unimportant

unimposing

unimpressive

uninfluential

venial

equivoque

on the line

bifarious

great divide

Translations

frontera

grens

frontière

limite

Grenze

frontera

confine

Scheide

frontiera

fronteira

fronteiriço

borda

Grenzlinie

οριακός

límite

Etymology

From border + line.