About The Word Marginal
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Marginal
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What's The Definition Of Marginal?
[adj] of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
[adj] at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach" [adj] of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability" [adj] producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land" [adj] just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory" Synonyms | Synonyms for Marginal: bare(a) | borderline | edge(a) | fringe(a) | fringy | hardscrabble | meager | meagerly | meagre | minimal | minimum | narrow | peripheral | unprofitable Related Terms | Find terms related to Marginal: bordering | borderline | boundary | bounding | coastal | determinant | determinative | determining | disputable | doubtful | dubious | extreme | fringing | frontier | inferior | infinitesimal | insignificant | limbic | liminal | limit | limiting | littoral | low-priority | minimal | negligible | no great shakes | of no account | of no consequence | of no matter | of no significance | on the edge | questionable | rimming | secondary | skirting | slight | small | terminal | threshold | tiny | unimportant See Also | Marginal In Webster's Dictionary \Mar"gin*al\, a. [Cf. F. marginal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a margin.
2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or
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