Brackish
['brækɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); 'a brackish lagoon'; 'the briny deep' .
(adj.) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; 'a thin brackish gruel' .
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Definition
(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Saltish, somewhat salt.
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Definition
adj. saltish: applied to water mixed with salt or with sea-water.—n. Brack′ishness.
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Examples
- Yet she desired it, as one in a desert would be thankful for brackish water. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The water was brackish and the banks were fringed with timber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A neutral liquid formed as in Section 204, by the action of hydrochloric acid and the alkali solution of caustic soda, has a brackish, salty taste, and is, in fact, a solution of salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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