marginal
/ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/ adjective C1- Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge). · 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.
- Written in the margin of a book. · There were more marginal notes than text.
- Sharing a border; geographically adjacent. · Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- 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. · 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.
- Barely productive. · He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- Marginalized.
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There, seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell, and to which, from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people, he was particularly attached, the king, Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius’s rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
de Villefort’s marginal notes.
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