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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marginally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
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▪ In Darlington, York, Durham and Middlesbrough the number of voters is marginally higher.
▪ In order to lock into today's low rates potential borrowers will have to agree to marginally higher rates than are really current.
▪ But, having agreed these new, marginally higher rates now, they have in fact caused rates to rise.
▪ The Sekers Group profit before tax fell from £0.8m to a loss of £0.1m on sales marginally higher.
▪ Only that portion of income above this figure is taxed at a marginally higher rate.
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▪ And he is a marginally better bowler than Hick even if he's still seeking his first Test wicket.
▪ Predictions for 1993 are only marginally better, hence the emphasis on efficiency and cost reduction will be stronger than ever.
▪ Table 16.8 shows that the household is marginally better off out of work than it would have been in work.
▪ In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Stock prices rose marginally in early trading today.
▪ The population of New Hampshire is only marginally larger than that of the city of Detroit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bilk has now marginally slowed his playing activities in order to concentrate on a second love-painting.
▪ It can be contemporary or traditional, marginally functional or not functional at all.
▪ Note, too, that this size is marginally smaller than that for which you were asked to quote.
▪ Overall market share was marginally improved.
▪ She knew only marginally more about him than she did about Bella.
▪ States could raise academic standards for some students and consign others to a new and marginally improved version of job training.
▪ The greatest hindrance to recovery of this resource is the marginally favorable economic environment.
▪ The other tenured faculty, including those whom Gordon considered marginally sympathetic, would remain quiet or chip in their own criticisms.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marginally

Marginally \Mar"gin*al*ly\, adv.

  1. In the margin of a book.

  2. In a marginal[3] manner; barely sufficiently; almost not; as, marginally useful.

Wiktionary
marginally

adv. In a marginal manner, or to a marginal extent; barely sufficiently; slightly.

WordNet
marginally

adv. in a marginal manner; "marginally interesting"

Usage examples of "marginally".

The threadbare white towels were designed for midgets, but she still felt marginally more human by the time she stepped back into the room, clean underwear and a silk bathrobe wrapped securely around her still-damp body.

Blessed silence reigned in the storeroom as it grew marginally lighter.

He managed a wry grin, suddenly feeling marginally more in control with the infusion of a little humor into the situation.

His hold loosened marginally, but when she hitched her hips to the side and landed a fist soundly against his testicles, his strength apparently abandoned him.

Ylyd and K-2, there were only a couple of marginally habitable planets in their solar system.

The more Nifty Gift looked at the readings on his little multimeter, the more strongly they suggested to him that something about the drive must be marginally off.

Daulo with his mouth hanging open, Akim only marginally less thunderstruck.

There was no cowcatcher on the train, nothing to dig in or slow however marginally its headlong rush to extinction.

He was marginally neater and cleaner than the others, and carried a sword of rank.

Both her eyes regarded him fondly as she allowed his excitement marginally to rise.

By the time he halted on the street above its steep slope of tired winter grass, the Julian ladies were settling themselves upon campstools, and a sturdy Thracian-looking fellow who had led their slave escort was busy erecting an open-fronted tent of hide to shelter his mistress from the rain, marginally heavier.

In retrospect, that flurry might be interpreted as being only marginally premature, anticipating by less than a decade the reawakening that would bring the ancient cults to the fore.

Russian spacecraft and imaginary space scientists, which of course makes it marginally harder for a sceptic to check the story out.

She might have said something consolatory, even marginally friendly, but he shifted his head, spotted her.

He was to seem marginally retarded, providing an apparency of harmlessness.