borderline vs problematic

borderline

adj
  • Exhibiting borderline personality disorder. 

  • Showing bad taste. 

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

noun
  • A boundary or accepted division; a border. 

  • An individual who has borderline personality disorder. 

verb
  • To border, or border on; to be physically close or conceptually akin to. 

adv
  • Nearly; not entirely but nevertheless to a great extent. 

problematic

adj
  • Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism). 

  • Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide. 

  • Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt. 

  • a problematic analysis 

noun
  • A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study. 

How often have the words borderline and problematic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )