Usually means: At the edge; nearly qualifying.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word borderline:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. borderline: Merriam-Webster
  2. borderline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. borderline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. borderline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. borderline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Borderline, borderline: Wordnik
  7. borderline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. borderline: Wiktionary
  9. borderline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. borderline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. borderline: Dictionary.com
  12. borderline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Borderline (Brooks & Dunn album), Borderline (Chris de Burgh song), Borderline (Conway Twitty album), Borderline (EP), Borderline (Madonna song), Borderline (Michael Gray song), Borderline (Ry Cooder album), Borderline (TV Series), Borderline (TV series), Borderline (Tame Impala song), Borderline (band), Borderline (film), Borderline (magazine), Borderline (video game), Borderline, The Borderline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. borderline: Rhymezone
  15. borderline: FreeDictionary.org
  16. borderline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. borderline: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. borderline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Borderline (disambiguation), borderline: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borderline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. borderline: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Borderline (disambiguation), Borderline (psychiatry), borderline: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. borderline: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. borderline: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
adjective:  Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.
adjective:  Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
adverb:  Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent.
noun:  (countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.
noun:  (countable) A person who has borderline personality disorder.
verb:  (transitive) To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.
noun:  (uncountable) Short for borderline personality disorder. [(psychiatry) Behavior that borders both neurosis and psychosis.]

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