Brackish

Quick meaning: Brackish is an adjective meaning (hydrology) Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

Meaning

(hydrology) Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

More Meanings

1. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
2. Repulsive.

Example Sentences

Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;

...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.

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.

Synonyms for brackish

Depending on context, synonyms include salt, briny.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include briny, salt, saline, brinish, saltish, salty.

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