marginal
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation edit
- (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 edit
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 edit
- 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
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Noun edit
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[1], 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.
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Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
- marginal
- 2016 December, “Alep: La batalla que va decidir el curs de la guerra a Síria”, in El Periódico[2]:
- Ara, els EUA juguen un paper marginal en el conflicte.
- Now, the US plays a marginal role in the conflict.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “marginal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒi.nal/
audio (file) Audio (file) - Homophones: marginale, marginales
Adjective edit
marginal (feminine marginale, masculine plural marginaux, feminine plural marginales)
- written in the margin of a book; marginal
- (relational) margin, edge; marginal
- outside the mainstream; fringe, fringy
- of lesser importance; secondary
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
marginal m (plural marginaux)
Further reading edit
- “marginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
marginal (strong nominative masculine singular marginaler, not comparable)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin marginalis.
Adjective edit
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References edit
- “marginal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin marginalis.
Adjective edit
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References edit
- “marginal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
marginal m or f (plural marginais)
- marginal (of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge)
- outlaw, criminal (a person who operates outside established norms)
- Synonyms: delinquente, desviante
- (economics) marginal
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
marginal f (plural marginais)
Noun edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French marginal. By surface analysis, margine + -al.
Adjective edit
marginal m or n (feminine singular marginală, masculine plural marginali, feminine and neuter plural marginale)
Declension edit
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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginales)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “marginal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Noun edit
marginal c
- a margin
Declension edit
Declension of marginal | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | marginal | marginalen | marginaler | marginalerna |
Genitive | marginals | marginalens | marginalers | marginalernas |