marginal
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹ.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmaː.d͡ʒɪ.nəl/
Audio (AU) (file)
Adjective
marginal (not generally comparable, comparative more marginal, superlative most marginal)
- (not comparable) 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.
- 1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
- 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.
- The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) 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.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
- 2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour′s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, page 79:
- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
- 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 58:
- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
- 2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, unnumbered page:
- 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.
- 2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:
- 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.
- 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.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
Derived terms
- 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
- multimarginal
- nonmarginal
- perimarginal
- postmarginal
- submarginal
- supermarginal
- supramarginal
- transmarginal
- unmarginal
Related terms
Translations
of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge
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geographically adjacent
written in the margin of a book
at the lower extent of a standard
of land that is barely productive
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where the winning margin was a small proportion of the total number of votes
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Noun
marginal (plural marginals)
- Something or somebody that is marginal.
- 1990, Elizabeth B. Lee, Sociology For People: A Caring Profession, page 110:
- […] discusses those who belong to the discipline's dominant cults, the mainliners, and their relations with the marginals and mavericks.
- 2013 August 29, Clifford D. Simak, Project Pope, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- “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 ...
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
Translations
something that is marginal
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constituency won with a small margin
Anagrams
Catalan
Adjective
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
Related terms
Further reading
- “marginal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒi.nal/
audio (file) Audio (file) - Homophones: marginale, marginales
Adjective
marginal (feminine marginale, masculine plural marginaux, feminine plural marginales)
Derived terms
Noun
marginal m (plural marginaux)
Further reading
- “marginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
Declension
Positive forms of marginal (uncomparable)
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒiˈnaw/ [maɦ.ʒiˈnaʊ̯]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /maɾ.ʒiˈnaw/ [maɾ.ʒiˈnaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒiˈnaw/ [maʁ.ʒiˈnaʊ̯]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /maɻ.ʒiˈnaw/ [maɻ.ʒiˈnaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐɾ.ʒiˈnal/ [mɐɾ.ʒiˈnaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐɾ.ʒiˈna.li/
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: mar‧gi‧nal
Adjective
marginal m or f (plural marginais)
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
marginal m or f by sense (plural marginais)
- outlaw, criminal (a person who operates outside established norms)
- Synonym: delinquente
- Aquele menino é um marginal!
- That boy is a criminal!
Romanian
Adjective
marginal m or n (feminine singular marginală, masculine plural marginali, feminine and neuter plural marginale)
Declension
Declension of marginal
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | marginal | marginală | marginali | marginale | ||
definite | marginalul | marginala | marginalii | marginalele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | marginal | marginale | marginali | marginale | ||
definite | marginalului | marginalei | marginalilor | marginalelor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maɾxiˈnal/ [maɾ.xiˈnal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: mar‧gi‧nal
Related terms
Further reading
- “marginal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Declension
Declension of marginal | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | marginal | marginalen | marginaler | marginalerna |
Genitive | marginals | marginalens | marginalers | marginalernas |
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