Narrow
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To reduce in width or extent; to contract. To get narrower.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Example sentence: By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
Marginal
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Something that is marginal.Especially a constituency with a small winning margin.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edgegeographically adjacentwritten in the margin of a bookat the lower extent of a standardof land that is barely productiveof an electoral district (such as a parliamentary constituency) where the winning margin was a small proportion of the total number of votes, so that only a small change in voting behaviour is necessary to alter the outcome of an election.
Example sentence: I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.