marginal

Plural: marginals

Adjective Satellite

• at or constituting a border or edge
  • "the marginal strip of beach"
• of questionable or minimal quality
  • "marginal writing ability"
• just barely adequate or within a lower limit
  • "a marginal victory"
• producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
  • "marginal industries"

Adj

• Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
• Written in the margin of a book.
• Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
• Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
• Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
• Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
• Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
• Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
• Barely productive.
• Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
• Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
• Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
• Marginalized

Noun

• Something or somebody that is marginal.
• A constituency won with a small margin.

Examples

• "Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal."
• "He farmed his marginal land with difficulty."
• "His writing ability was marginal at best."
• "In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around."
• "In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups."
• "Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England."
• "The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants."
• "The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions."
• "There were more marginal notes than text."

Synonyms

bare, borderline, fringy

Related Words

margin, marginalia