English-French translations for borderline

• borderline
• état-limite
• limite
  En Grèce par exemple, quatre zones ne seront plus financées dans le cadre du quatrième fonds de cohésion sociale et trois autres sont à la limite. In Greece, for example, four areas will not be funded under the fourth CSF, while another three are on the borderline.
  Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, Mesdames et Messieurs, je ne sais si Constantin était Byzantin ; après tout, il marque la limite entre Byzance et l'Empire romain. Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I am not sure Constantine was Byzantine, after all he was borderline between Byzantium and the Roman Empire.
• sur les bords" (familiar

Definition of borderline

• nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous
• Showing bad taste
• Exhibiting borderline personality disorder
• nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent
• A boundary or accepted division; a border
• An individual who has borderline personality disorder
• To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to

Examples

• I would rather hire a talented layman than a university graduate with borderline qualifications
• Your borderline remarks about my aunts dress destroyed my evening
• He is borderline hypoglycemic and needs to monitor his sugar intake
• I expected him to be super boring but he was actually borderline funny!
• She lives on the borderline between reality and madness

Related words

• borderliner
• borderline intellectual functioning
• borderline mental retardation
• borderline intellectually functioning
• borderline mentally retarded
• borderline personality disorder
• borderline syndrome
• borderline case