English-German translations for borderline

• Grenze die
  Durch diesen Gerichtshof wird uns begreiflich gemacht, daß die Grenze zwischen Realpolitik und Kriegsverbrechen oft sehr leicht überschritten wird. This court brings to our attention that the borderline between conducting Realpolitik and war crimes is often and easily transgressed.
  Ich möchte die Frage von Frau Fraisse und Ihre Antwort aufgreifen und dazu anmerken, daß eine Grenze festgelegt werden muß, so daß bekannt ist, was patentiert werden darf und was nicht. Following up Mrs Fraisse's question and your response to that, the borderline must be established as to what is acceptable for patenting and what is not.
• Scheide die

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