1. a small margin - the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory - the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote • Syn: narrow margin, narrowness • Derivationally related forms: slim, narrow (for: narrowness) • Hypernyms: margin 2. the property of an attractively thin person • Syn: slenderness, slightness • Derivationally related forms: slim, slight (for: slightness), slender (for: slenderness) • Hypernyms: leanness, thinness, spareness