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Definition of Borderline
1. Adjective. Of questionable or minimal quality. "Marginal writing ability"
2. Noun. A line that indicates a boundary.
Generic synonyms: Bound, Boundary, Bounds
Specialized synonyms: Circuit, Circumference, Fence Line, Property Line, State Boundary, State Line
Specialized synonyms: Green Line, Line Of Control
Derivative terms: Border, Border, Border, Delimit, Delimitate
Definition of Borderline
1. Adjective. nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous. ¹
2. Adjective. Showing bad taste. ¹
3. Noun. A boundary or accepted division; a border. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Borderline
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Borderline
Literary usage of Borderline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1919)
"To my mind the term "borderline case" implies an indecision ... In my medical
school days a borderline case suggested a malady to which the general medical ..."
2. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"borderline Personality Disorder Engagement Safety is an anchor for patients ...
To help patients with borderline personality disorder establish and maintain ..."
3. Criminology by Maurice Parmelee (1918)
"CHAPTER XII PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINALS The borderline between amentia ... Consequently,
there are some individuals on or near the borderline who cannot be ..."
4. Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing by James Burt Miner (1918)
"QUANTITATIVE DEFINITIONS OF THE borderline On the basis of the detailed conception
of the developmental curves and distributions of ability at different ..."
5. Wisconsin Medical Journal by State Medical Society of Wisconsin (1905)
"THE borderline BETWEEN MEDICINE AND SURGERY. ... and the only dispute among well
informed medical men now is at to what class of borderline ..."
6. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"borderline Malnutrition, Not Causing Alarm, of Greater Aggregate Importance Than
Deficiency Diseases.— The data presented in this chapter, relative to the ..."
7. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"borderline OR FRUSTE FORMS OF HYPERTHYROIDISM. IT is not usual to find all the
thyrotoxic symptoms ordinarily seen in Graves's disease equally developed in ..."
8. Law in the Modern State by Léon Duguit (1919)
"CHAPTER THE borderline OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW ADMINISTRATIVE law is, however, more
complex in nature than the preceding chapter has suggested. ..."
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