Use the word marginal when something is minimal or barely enough. If you buy lemons and sugar, make lemonade and set up a stand on the street corner, but sell only a couple of glasses, your profits will be marginal.
Of or pertaining to a margin.
Adjective S.
of something or someone close to a lower limit or lower class; "marginal abilities"
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of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper''s hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
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at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach"
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of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability"
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producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"
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just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
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Of or pertaining to a margin.
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Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or
gloss.
Marginal
Of or pertaining to a margin.
Usage Examples
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.
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Other Usage ExamplesI certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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