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marginalized

marginalized is the simple past and past participle of marginalize.

Meaning of marginalize

Verb

marginalize (third-person singular simple present marginalizes, present participle marginalizing, simple past and past participle marginalized)

  1. (transitive) To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
    • The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305
  2. To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
    • Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.2021, Nils Thuerey, Philipp Holl, Maximilian Mueller, Patrick Schnell, Felix Trost, Kiwon Um, chapter 25, in Physics-based Deep Learning, page 245

Adjective

marginalized (comparative more marginalized, superlative most marginalized)

  1. Subject to marginalization.
    • The current Israeli government has been working to curtail and eliminate critical voices within Israeli society in recent years, particularly those fighting to end the occupation and expose human rights violations against Palestinians and marginalized communities.2018, “Israeli gov't is trying to defund +972 Magazine, report says”, in +972 Magazine

Forms of marginalized

comparativemore marginalized
superlativemost marginalized

Words formed from marginalized

Phrases with marginalized

Questions about marginalized

What does marginalized mean?
Marginalized means subject to marginalization.
What is marginalized the simple past and past participle of?
Marginalized is the simple past and past participle of marginalize.
What part of speech is marginalized?
Marginalized is an adjective.

Words near marginalized in the dictionary

  1. marginalizable
  2. marginalization
  3. marginalizations
  4. marginalize
  5. marginalize out
  6. marginalized
  7. marginalized out
  8. marginalizer
  9. marginalizers
  10. marginalizes
  11. marginalizes out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marginalized (page history and authors); marginalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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