marginally
35
4.1
- adverb
- /ˈmɑrdʒɪnəli/
:
ligeramente
- You can curate a beautiful space without having everything be new or marginally expensive.
- marginally better
- marginally more
- only marginally
They probably thought it was marginally less bad, but not by much.
- They probably thought it was marginally less bad, but not by much.
- But they also take up marginally more space than a barbed fitting.
- They're like just marginally above the floor, which is so unheard of for me.
- If you use treated lumber, you're spending marginally more money for a marginal amount of time.
- For US public pension investors, this can marginally improve funding statuses or alter required contribution funding rates.
- AII think it's making people marginally more efficient, but I've not seen yet the massive displacement of workers because of AI.
Examples
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In fact, it needs to go marginally shorter.
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I think it was marginally better than last week.
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But it gets marginally less weird when you draw them.
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In addition, students in all classes, on average, marginally improved or did not improve performance in personal finance.
Academic text (2011) -
In the 20th century, the novel was still a marginally popular form.
Academic text (1999) -
They probably thought it was marginally less bad, but not by much.
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It was a miserable experience, made only marginally better by wine and a simple high protein diet at sea.
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For US public pension investors, this can marginally improve funding statuses or alter required contribution funding rates.
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High pollution concentration is associated with marginally higher daily mortality only when the weather is benign.
Academic text (1993) -
The project is marginally more efficient than the previous version.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A small amount, not very much
∞
1.0
By a very small amount
∞
2.1
To some degree but not completely
∞
1.0
To a small degree or amount
∞
1.0
Happens only by a very small amount
885
1.0
A little, not very much
816
2.0
To a small degree
169
3.7
To a very small degree, hardly at all
92
2.7
To a small, gentle degree
68
4.2
Almost not at all or only just
47
2.7
In a way that is only slightly noticeable
22
3.7
A very small amount that is almost not noticeable
16
4.1
A little in amount or degree
4
8.6
By a very small amount that is almost zero
3
4.6
By a very small amount
Antonyms
How Much
350
1.0
144
3.4
816
2.0
35
4.1
885
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Marginally comes from margin, which means the 'edge' or border of something, like the blank space at the side of a page. So if something changes marginally, it is only at the edge — 'slightly' or just a little.