border on

1. 1.

   come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

   “This borders on discrimination!”

   “His playing approaches that of Horowitz”

   Synonymsapproach

   Broaderapproximate

   Narrowerconverge

Questions about border on

What does border on mean?

border on means "come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character".

What is another word for border on?

Close synonyms include approach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is border on a common word?

border on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.