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brackish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective brackish has 2 senses
- brackish(s = adj.all) Array - distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"
- brackish(s = adj.all) briny - slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" Derived form noun brackishness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
brackish, a. [See Brack salt water.].
Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. [1913 Webster]
"Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
brackish, adj. (of water etc.) slightly salty.
Derivative
brackishness n.
Etymology
obs. brack (adj.) f. MLG, MDu. brac
THESAURUS
brackish
bad, barfy, briny, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky, maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, offensive, overripe, pickled, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rotten, saline, salt, salted, saltish, salty, sickening, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yuckyROGET THESAURUS
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Saltiness
N saltiness, niter, saltpeter, brine, salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny, salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife, salty, racy (indecent), take it with a grain of salt.
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