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"Borderline" Definition

noun

A line that establishes or marks a border.
An indefinite area intermediate between two qualities or conditions: The borderline between love and hate is often thin.

adjective

Of a questionable nature or quality: an applicant with borderline qualifications.
Psychology Relating to any phenomenon that is intermediate between two groups and not clearly categorized in either group: a borderline state showing the characteristics of both neurotic and psychotic reactions.
Relating to a condition characterized by a pattern of instability in mood, interpersonal relations, and self-image, and manifested by self-destructive, impulsive, and inconsistent behavior: the borderline syndrome.
Verging on a given quality or condition: borderline poverty.
Being in an intermediate position or state not fully classifiable as one thing or its opposite .

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