Get to know Borderline better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like marginal or bound.
Borderline meaning
- Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
- Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.
- Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
Synonyms of Borderline
Using Borderline
- The main meaning on this page is: Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous. | Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste. | Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
- Useful related words include: marginal, bound, boundary, mete.
- In the example corpus, borderline often appears in combinations such as: the borderline, and borderline, is borderline.
Context around Borderline
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 4 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Borderline
- In this selection, "borderline" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, either, generally, behavior, personality, bar and abusive stand out and add context to how "borderline" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also a borderline first round and and even borderline woody plants. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "borderline" sits close to words such as altman, apprehension and archery, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with borderline
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In fact, they’re borderline stupid. (6 words)
The borderline violent color palate of Barbie! (7 words)
Or maybe being really aggressive and it’s a borderline hit. (11 words)
It's a bizarre and borderline trippy movie at times, but this also might be a factor as to why it's a cult classic, and sometimes held up as a fan-favorite (or at least one of the series' most underrated). (42 words)
DL Leonard Taylor is also a borderline first-round pick in most draft databases as a disruptive defensive lineman while S James Williams compliments Kinchens in the secondary as a big-bodied safety/linebacker hybrid. (35 words)
Reviews of DID patients and their medical records concluded that the majority of those diagnosed with DID would also meet the criteria for either borderline personality disorder or more generally borderline personality. (32 words)
The borderline violent color palate of Barbie! (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
Borderline Bar Shooting: How You Can HelpHere's how you can help in the wake of the Borderline Bar & Grill shooting that has left 13 people dead.
Reviews of DID patients and their medical records concluded that the majority of those diagnosed with DID would also meet the criteria for either borderline personality disorder or more generally borderline personality.
Another production source said Majors had made costumers cry on the set of 2022 war drama “,” calling the behavior “borderline abusive,” the magazine reported.
Coach Luke Richardson criticized the hit by Carlo, which was borderline interference.
DL Leonard Taylor is also a borderline first-round pick in most draft databases as a disruptive defensive lineman while S James Williams compliments Kinchens in the secondary as a big-bodied safety/linebacker hybrid.
Harry later recalled that his “penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatised”, eventually leading him to turn to Elizabeth Arden cream for help with his sensitive issue.
He explained the defendant had recently been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and had been assessed as kind-hearted and caring but naive.
His harsh attitude and borderline abusive intentions are on full display when Tanjiro visits the Rengoku household after Kyojuro's untimely demise.
I gotta say though, the sheer audacity of this tin can menace is borderline amusing.
In fact, they’re borderline stupid.
It's a bizarre and borderline trippy movie at times, but this also might be a factor as to why it's a cult classic, and sometimes held up as a fan-favorite (or at least one of the series' most underrated).
Josh has transformed himself and did so to such an extent that he was borderline unrecognisable.
Judge Haesler accepted most of the operation was controlled by Consigli's alleged co-accused and that her borderline personality disorder left her with a chronic fear of abandonment and rejection.
Of course, this isn’t exactly surprising as the economic backdrop in the UK has zigged and zagged between negative and borderline catastrophic for much of the year.
Or maybe being really aggressive and it’s a borderline hit.
Spring may reveal some woody species, such as crapemyrtle, killed to the ground or warm-season grasses, tender perennials and even borderline woody plants killed outright.
Tense, fast-paced, and borderline addictive, When You’re Lost in Darkness effectively sets the stage for the rest of the season.
The anime "fixed" this by reducing Nemu to a stoic comic relief and source of borderline-incestuous fanservice.
The borderline violent color palate of Barbie!
The game has crippling performance issues on PC, making it borderline unplayable on even the most powerful of systems.
Common combinations with borderline
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the borderline 32×
- and borderline 16×
- is borderline 15×
- borderline personality 14×
- borderline cases 12×
- borderline bar 10×
- was borderline 6×
- it borderline 6×
- borderline abusive 4×
- with borderline 4×