BORDERLINE

borderline, marginal

(adjective) of questionable or minimal quality; “borderline grades”; “marginal writing ability”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

borderline (comparative more borderline, superlative most borderline)

nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.

Showing bad taste.

Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.

Adverb

borderline (not comparable)

nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent

Noun

borderline (plural borderlines)

A boundary or accepted division; a border.

An individual who has borderline personality disorder.

Verb

borderline (third-person singular simple present borderlines, present participle borderlining, simple past and past participle borderlined)

(transitive) To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to.

Source: Wiktionary



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AWRY

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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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