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hardscrabble

adj. of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"

narrow

adj. very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"

borderline

adj. of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "madj.allarginal writing ability"

hardscrabble

adj. producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"

edge, fringe, fringy

adj. at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach"

spare, scanty, bare, scant

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

exiguous

adj. extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

measly, miserable, paltry

adj. contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

moral

adj. based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence: "a moral certainty"

nearby

adj. close at hand; "the nearby towns"; "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus"

nearer

adj. less distant in space: "we walked to the nearer house"

neighbor, neighbour, neighboring, neighbouring

adj. situated near one another; "neighbor states"

nigh

adj. not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call"

virtual

adj. existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact; "a virtual dependence on charity"; "a virtual revolution"; "virtual reality"

warm, hot

adj. of a seeker; near to the object sought; "you're getting warm"; "hot on the trail"

bottom, lowest

adj. the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class"

least, lowest, smallest

adj. lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"

negligible

adj. so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"

trifling, token, nominal

adj. insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture"

stripped, stripped-down

adj. having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget"

lean

adj. not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"

profitless, unremunerative

adj. not yielding profit or recompense; "an unremunerative occupation"

circumferential, encircling, skirting

adj. being all around the edges; enclosing; "his encircling arms"; "the room's skirting board needs painting"

off-base

adj. located outside a military base; "off-base housing"

central

adj. in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning"

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