3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

brackish

adjective: slightly salty; "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: {briny}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Brackish \Brack"ish\, adjective [See {Brack} salt water.] Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. --Byron.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, yucky

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