Synonyms of the word

marginal

• adj. (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location…
• adj. (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
• adj. (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption…
• n. Something that is marginal.
• n. A constituency won with a small margin.

bare

• adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adj. Naked, uncovered.
• adj. Having no supplies.
• adj. Having no decoration.
• adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
• adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
• adj. Threadbare; much worn.
• adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
• adv. Barely.
• adv. Without a condom.
• n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
• n. Surface; body; substance.
• n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

borderline

• adj. nearly; not clearly on one side or the other of a border or boundary, ambiguous.
• adj. Showing bad taste.
• adj. Exhibiting borderline personality disorder.
• n. A boundary or accepted division; a border.
• n. An individual who has borderline personality disorder.

disapproved

• v. simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.

fringy

• adj. (informal) Beyond the mainstream.
• adj. Adorned with fringes.

hardscrabble

• adj. Of land: taking a lot of work to farm, and even then not very productive.

meager

• adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adj. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
• adj. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is…
• adj. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
• v. (transitive) To make lean.

meagerly

• adv. In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.

meagre

• n. Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
• adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adj. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
• adj. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is…
• adj. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
• v. (transitive) To make lean.

minimal

• adj. The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree.
• adj. (art) characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
• adj. (music) characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.

minimum

• n. The lowest limit.
• n. The smallest amount.
• n. (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
• n. (analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
• n. (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
• adj. To the lowest degree.

narrow

• adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison…
• adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
• adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
• adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted.
• adj. Having a small margin or degree.
• adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened.
• adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
• adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
• adj. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate;…
• v. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
• v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait…

peripheral

• adj. On the periphery or boundary.
• adj. Beside the point.
• adj. Unimportant.
• adj. Auxiliary.
• adj. (neuroanatomy) Related to or located in the peripheral nervous system.
• n. (computing) a device, such as a printer or scanner, connected to a computer.
• n. peripheral vision.

stingy

• adj. Stinging; able to sting.
• adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

unprofitable

• adj. Not making a profit.