marginal

Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).not-comparableusually

• 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.

Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).; Written in the margin of a book.not-comparableusually

• There were more marginal notes than text.

Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).; Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.not-comparableusually

• Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.

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.comparablenot-comparableusually

• 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.

Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.; Barely productive.comparablenot-comparableusually

• He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.

Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.; 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.AustraliaNew-ZealandUK

• In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.

Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.not-comparableusually

Marginalized.not-comparableusually

• 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 as

Something or somebody that is marginal.

• […] 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 ...

A constituency won with a small margin.