Marginal
[adj] of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
[adj] at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach"
[adj] of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability"
[adj] producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"
[adj] just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
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Synonyms
bare(a), borderline, edge(a), fringe(a), fringy, hardscrabble, meager, meagerly, meagre, minimal, minimum, narrow, peripheral, unprofitable
Related Terms
bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, coastal, determinant, determinative, determining, disputable, doubtful, dubious, extreme, fringing, frontier, inferior, infinitesimal, insignificant, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, littoral, low-priority, mini