Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.
2. (figurative) Acerbic; unsentimental.
3. (slang) The sea.

Example Sentences

on the briny deep

[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.

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.

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

Word Forms

• brinier
• more briny
• briniest
• most briny
• the briny

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Use briny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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