Marginal

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.
 * 1) geographically adjacent
 * Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
 * 1) written in the margin of a book
 * There were more marginal notes than text.
 * 1) at the lower extent of a standard
 * His writing ability was marginal at best.
 * 1) of land that is barely productive
 * He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1) of categories of people living on the social margin
 * violence against marginal groups

Derived terms

 * marginal cost
 * marginal utility

Related terms

 * margin

Noun

 * 1) Something that is marginal.
 * 2) Especially a constituency with a small winning margin.

Adverbs for Marginal
broadly; safely; dangerously; insecurely; permissibly; perilously; riskily; 'hazardously.

Thesaurus
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