marginal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
geography
government
human-sciences
natural-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis, equivalent to margin + -al.
Base: margin
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more marginal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marginal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: marginals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
gloss: Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: There were more marginal notes than text.
The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
gloss: Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
gloss: Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: His writing ability was marginal at best.
Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal.
The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions.
gloss: Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
gloss: Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.
He justified his comment by noting that the Labour Party had quickly committed to delivering a high-speed Leeds-Manchester line, and argued that pressure would grow on the Government because there were several marginal parliamentary seats around Leeds and Bradford.
gloss: Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Marginalized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The caseworker couldn't understand how I could have stretched out my last bit of money for so long. She seemed convinced that I was "hiding" income from her and interrogated me for I don't know how long. […] The system seems based on the assumption that people are "welfare cheats." If you don't speak English or are marginal in some other way, it's worse.
gloss: Something or somebody that is marginal.
pos: noun
examples: […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
“We need a saint or some other symbol that will serve to anchor our faith into the foreseeable future. I have watched and waited for a saint but none showed up—not even a marginal saint. Mary is the first one, and we must not allow her ...
gloss: A constituency won with a small margin.
pos: noun
Related words: margin
marginalia
Derived words: admarginal
bimarginal
callosomarginal
cingulomarginal
circummarginal
comarginal
dorsomarginal
ectomarginal
endomarginal
epimarginal
extramarginal
frontomarginal
ice-marginal
inferomarginal
inframarginal
interiomarginal
intermarginal
intramarginal
marginal analysis
marginal benefit
marginal cost
marginal credit
marginal distribution
marginal farmer
marginalise
marginalism
marginalist
marginalistic
marginality
marginalization
marginalize
marginally
marginalness
marginal note
marginal sea
marginal utility
marginal wharf
multimarginal
nonmarginal
perimarginal
postmarginal
submarginal
supermarginal
supramarginal
transmarginal
unmarginal
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: լուսանցքային
roman: lusancʻkʻayin
lang: Catalan
word: marginal
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 边际的
roman: biānjì de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 边缘的
roman: biānyuán de
lang: Finnish
word: marginaalinen
lang: French
word: marginal
lang: French
word: périphérique
lang: Galician
word: marxinal
lang: Japanese
word: 隅の
roman: sumi no
lang: Japanese
word: 辺境の
roman: henkyō no
lang: Portuguese
word: periférico
lang: Portuguese
word: marginal
lang: Spanish
word: marginal
lang: Swedish
word: marginell
lang: Ukrainian
word: маргіна́льний
roman: marhinálʹnyj
lang: Finnish
word: vaa’ankieli-