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/ˈbɹækɪʃ/ · adjective
(hydrology) Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries..
1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House. The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
White Slough is a large tidal wetland full of brackish water from the Napa River that flows into the city of Vallejo from under Highway 37.
Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;
Use brackish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Brackish means (hydrology) Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries..
Common synonyms include salt, briny.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
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