English Explanatory Dictionary

marginal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
  2. Written in the margin of a book.
  3. Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
  4. Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
  5. 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.
  6. Barely productive.
  7. 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.
  8. Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
  9. Marginalized.
noun
  1. Something or somebody that is marginal.
  2. A constituency won with a small margin.

Pronunciation

/ˈmɑː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/ /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/ /ˈmɐː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/ en-au-marginal.ogg

Word forms

marginal more marginal most marginal marginals

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis, equivalent to margin + -al.

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

Armenian: լուսանցքային Catalan: marginal Chinese Mandarin: 边际的 Chinese Mandarin: 边缘的 Finnish: marginaalinen Finnish: vaa’ankieli- French: marginal French: périphérique Galician: marxinal Japanese: 隅の Japanese: 辺境の Portuguese: periférico Portuguese: marginal Spanish: marginal Swedish: marginell Ukrainian: маргіна́льний
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