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Brackish definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRACK'ISH, a. [Gr. to water.] Salt, or salt in a moderate degree; it is applied to any water partially saturated with salt.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"
2: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: brackish, briny]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Dutch brac salty; akin to Middle Low German brac salty Date: 1538 1. somewhat salty <brackish water> 2. a. not appealing to the taste <brackish tea> b. repulsive • brackishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (of water etc.) slightly salty. Derivatives: brackishness n. Etymology: obs. brack (adj.) f. MLG, MDu. brac

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brackish Brack"ish, a. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Brackish water is slightly salty and unpleasant. ...shallow pools of brackish water. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Saltish, somewhat salt.

Moby Thesaurus

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