Marginal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MARGINAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• anything in or on a margin
• a seat in a parliament or on a council that is held by a small majority and is at risk in an election
• a plant that grows in water close to the edge of land
• marginal constituency
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to or at the edge or margin
• minor and not important; not central
• (of costs or benefits) relating to or resulting from small or unit changes
• (of taxation) relating to increases in income
• (of a decision or distinction) very narrow; borderline
• (of a parliamentary or council seat) held by a small majority and therefore at risk in an election.
• close to the limit of profitability, especially through difficulty of exploitation
• insignificant, unimportant
• Of or pertaining to a margin.
• Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.
• at or constituting a border or edge
• of questionable or minimal quality
• just barely adequate or within a lower limit
• producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
• relating to water adjacent to the land's edge or coast
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one considered to be at a lower or outer limit

Words related to MARGINAL

marginality17 marginally16 marginals12

Words that contain MARGINAL

marginals12 marginalia13 marginally16 marginalise14 marginalism16 marginalist14 marginality17 marginalize23 submarginal16 marginalised16 marginalises15 marginalisms17 marginalists15 marginalized25 marginalizes24 intermarginal16 marginalising17 marginalities16 marginalizing26 submarginally21 marginalisation18 marginalization27 marginalizations28

How to use MARGINAL in a sentence

• Other marginal notes are reproduced within the text of the paragraph.
• The inscription is a necessary supplement to the marginal notes.
• This volume was published without that running marginal abstract of the contents which is so common upon the books of its period.
• A marginal pen correction in faded ink, in the copy from which we translate, reads 608.
• This Rendall was a wholesale dealer, very rich and large in all His habits, though he always said his profits were but marginal.
• On the first page of text a large initial S in gold on a panel of color, with marginal decoration.
• Gothic letter, 54 lines to the page, with marginal side-headings.
• Do, Sir, but read A book here closed up, which too late you opened, Now blotted by you with foul marginal notes.
• They are covered with marginal notes, and the additions which they have occasioned amount to almost a third of the original discourse.
• The marginal remarks are the notes made by a member of the Reform Committee to whom it was shown.
• Red marginal lines, crossed at the corners after the manner of an Oxford picture frame, enclosed each page of type, little red crosses took the place of full stops.
• Among other changes the marginal kiva, which was nearly in line with the proposed improvements, was removed.
• This effect is produced by the gradual filling in of abandoned and broken-down marginal houses, with fallen masonry and drifted sand.
• I was also shown a copy of an original treatise on the steam engine by Papin, which contained numerous marginal notes by Leibnitz.
• In the Greek, I saw her notes on the margin in Hebrew, and in the Hebrew she had written her marginal notes in Greek.
• There is also on the superior margin, about the middle of the upper wing, a white point, and at its inferior angle a marginal series of a few white points.
• On the back, only the marginal line is to be pierced.
• To the ladies whom he most liked, he would lend some learned work on the Revelation, crammed with marginal notes in his own hand, or Dr.
• Some mines are superior, others medium, others marginal which it barely pays to work.
• And this broad marginal reservation of space, however much it is deplored in viewing his work as novel-making, adds a peculiar tonic and is a characteristic we could ill spare.
• Nor are the marginal regions less interested in these communications to and through them to the great outside world.
• The avicularia on the marginal cells are very large, but not uniform in size.
• There was room in this way to have eighteen pictures of different phases of the transit on the marginal part of the one plate.

Similar words containing MARGIN without suffix al

margin9 margins10 margined12 marginals12 marginate12 margining13 emarginate13 marginalia13 marginally16 marginated14 marginates13 emarginated15 emarginates14 immarginate16 marginalise14 marginalism16 marginalist14 marginality17 marginalize23 marginating15 margination14 submarginal16 emarginately18 emarginating16 emargination15 marginalised16 marginalises15 marginalisms17 marginalists15 marginalized25 marginalizes24 marginations15 emarginations16 intermarginal16 marginalising17 marginalities16 marginalizing26 submarginally21 marginalisation18 marginalization27 marginalizations28

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