Marginal
WordNet
adjective
(1) Being close to a lower limit or or of lower class
"Marginal abilities"
(2) Of a bare living gained by great labor
"The sharecropper's hardscrabble life"
"A marginal existence"
(3) At or constituting a border or edge
"The marginal strip of beach"
(4) Of questionable or minimal quality
"Borderline grades"
"Madj.allarginal writing ability"
(5) Producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
"Marginal industries"
"Marginal land"
(6) Just barely adequate or within a lower limit
"A bare majority"
"A marginal victory"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge
- The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants
- geographically adjacent
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England
- written in the margin of a book
- There were more marginal notes than text
- at the lower extent of a standard
- His writing ability was marginal at best
- of land that is barely productive
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty
- of an electoral district (such as a parliamentary constituency) where the winning margin was a small proportion of the total number of votes, so that only a small change in voting behaviour is necessary to alter the outcome of an election.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000 so is highly marginal this time
Noun
- Something that is marginal.
- Especially a constituency with a small winning margin.
Adjective
- Written in the margin of a book; marginal
- Of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge; marginal
- Outside the mainstream; fringe, fringy
- Of lesser importance; secondary
Noun
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