marginal

Definitions of marginal in various dictionaries:

adj - at or constituting a border or edge

adj - of questionable or minimal quality

adj - just barely adequate or within a lower limit

adj - producing at a rate that barely covers production costs

Of, relating to, located at, or constituting a margin, a border, or an edge: the marginal strip of beach; a marginal issue that had no bearing on the election results.

Being adj acent geographically: states marginal to Canada.

Written or printed in the margin of a book: marginal notes.

Barely within a lower standard or limit of quality: marginal writing ability; eked out a marginal existence.

Economics.

Having to do with enterprises that produce goods or are capable of producing goods at a rate that barely covers production costs.

Relating to commodities thus manufactured and sold.

Relating to or located at the fringe of consciousness.

noun - one considered to be at a lower or outer limit