marginal · adjective
Sens et exemples
Très faible en quantité, en degré ou en importance.
The revised design offered only a marginal improvement, despite requiring substantially more time and money to produce.
A marginal difference between two scores may not justify treating one applicant as clearly stronger than the other.
The extra journey would bring a marginal saving that hardly seemed worth the additional inconvenience.
Her role in the decision was marginal, although later accounts gave the impression that she had directed the entire process.
Formes
- more marginal comparative
- most marginal superlative