Briny

Quick meaning: Briny is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Acerbic; unsentimental.
2. (slang) The sea.

Example Sentences

on the briny deep

I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny

That afternoon Mr Slater had been for what he termed "a blow of the briny," as his custom was on a fine day. He was returning in the dusk and had crossed the spacious promenade when, at a corner, he almost ran into the broad figure of a policeman who stood talking to a woman on the path.

[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.

Word Forms

• brinier
• briniest

Synonyms for briny

Depending on context, synonyms include main, brackish, salt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brackish, salt, main, muriatic, saline, baltic.

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