Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the margin, as of a book.
Wiktionary
- adv. in a marginal manner, or to a marginal extent; barely sufficiently; slightly
- adv. in the margin of a book
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In the margin of a book.
- adv. In a marginal{3} manner; barely sufficiently; almost not.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a marginal manner
Examples
“He noted the hybrid Malibu only gets what he described as marginally better fuel economy and said that the price is more expensive.”
“He spent two and a half years in the Navy, eventually given a general discharge under honorable conditions, following several minor infractions and an attitude which he describes as marginally insubordinate.”
“But if you do, you can have enough respect for the rest of us to actually post a few concise arguments here, not just paste in marginally-to-not-at-all relevant links to long winded arguments you made elsewhere 10 years ago.”
“Hardcore" could be described as a marginally brighter work than the rest of Mogwai's catalog.”
“(2. 5\%) prefer to read in English, marginally more than Malayalam. 50\% of Indians preferring to read in English live in rural areas Average monthly family income in India is Rs. 5,930 ( 'per capita' is Rs. 1,350) 70\% of all Indian families earn average to below-average incomes * accounting for approx. 1,112 million individuals (343 million urban and 769 million rural)”
“Another 2.6 million were defined as marginally attached to the labor force, including discouraged workers who had given up looking for work.”
“He turned to her, his expression softening marginally.”
“And we are improving marginally, which is a huge improvement over two years ago.”
“If you add people who have part-time jobs but would like a full-time job, and what are called marginally attached workers, the current rate is already 13. 5\%.”
“Among persons who were neither working nor looking for work in February, about 2.1 million were classified as marginally attached to the labor force, up from about 1.6 million a year earlier.”
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Arthurpod "He was marginally aware that Lena had moved away from him up the stream, apparently looking for something, but he was too preoccupied to wonder what she was doing."
Lord Foul's Bane, Chapter Five
Jul 29, 2012