borderline

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
美 /ˈboɹ.dɚˌlaɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A boundary or accepted division; a border. countable
    — She lives on the borderline between reality and madness.
  2. Ellipsis of borderline personality disorder. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,uncountable
    — The four overlapping concepts of borderline were as follows : (1) A residual model […] (2) An affective disorder model, which considered BPD as an affective spectrum illness displaying prominent[…]
  3. A person who has borderline personality disorder. countable
    — As an example of their affective profile, borderlines are set apart from passive aggressives by having more marked social anxiety […] and greater sensitivity […]
动词 v.
  1. To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
    — I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications.
  2. Of questionable taste or acceptability; approaching bad taste.
    — Your borderline remarks about my aunt’s dress destroyed my evening.
  3. Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
    — She clearly has borderline and narcissistic features and she meets the criteria for a rapid cycling bipolar disorder, as well as for a generalized anxiety disorder. She has a severe binge eating disorder and has gained 65 pounds since[…]
副词 adv.
  1. Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent. not-comparable
    — He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake.

词形变化

more borderline comparative most borderline superlative border-line alternative border-line alternative borderlines plural border-line alternative borderlines present,singular,third-person borderlining participle,present borderlined participle,past borderlined past border-line alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
borderline case borderline lichen borderlineness borderline personality disorder borderliner nonborderline

词源

词源 1
From border + line.
词源 2
From border + line.
词源 3
From border + line.
词源 4
From border + line.
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