Definitions for borderlines

borderlines bor·der·line

Spelling: [bawr-der-lahyn]
IPA: /ˈbɔr dərˌlaɪn/

Borderlines is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 977 anagrams from letters in borderlines (bdeeilnorrs).

Definitions for borderlines

adjective

  1. on or near a border or boundary.
  2. uncertain; indeterminate; debatable:
  3. not quite meeting accepted, expected, or average standards.
  4. approaching bad taste or obscenity:

noun

  1. a person suffering from borderline personality.

Origin of borderlines

First recorded in 1865-70; border + line1

Examples for borderlines

Vasquez, who has borderline ID, was exonerated in 1989, four years after his conviction.

Why had she ventured back on to the borderline of this life that had once been hers?

The pair carried on their “work” relationship as borderline transients.

Their relationships with each other range from conciliatory to borderline antagonistic.

Their borderline baseline distaste for a person they did not know had become a sport, and the off season was finally over.

Family and friends describe her as highly dedicated to her job, if not borderline workaholic.

It was so poignant a sensation that it crossed the borderline into pain.

Between prescience and imagination the borderline is ill defined.

Going from Stirling to Crieff we crossed the borderline of the Highlands.

The old man was upon that borderline between the living and the dead.

Word Value for borderlines
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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