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brackish
adjective
(brack-ish)
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
Synonyms:
briny
,
Examples:
A brackish lagoon.
brackish
adjective
(brack-ish)
distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture
Examples:
A thin brackish gruel.
Words Related to
brackish
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briny
,
salt
,
saline
,
salty
,
turbid
,
freshwater
,
watery
,
swampy
,
marshy
,
estuarine
,
shallow
,
muddy
,
arid
,
desalinated
,
eutrophic
,
salsuginous
,
acidic
,
sandy
,
oligotrophic
,
estuarial
,
brownish
,
potable
,
lacustrine
,
anoxic
,
waveless
,
diked
,
alongshore
,
oxygenated
,
undrinkable
,
soupy
,
chlorinated
,
spatterdock
,
droughty
,
coralline
,
shrimplike
,
silted
,
goopy
,
mucilaginous
,
ferruginous
,
salinize
,
blackish
,
abyssal
,
polluted
,
chemosynthetic
,
peaty
,
salineness
,
oily
,
tributary
,
algal
,
drinkable
,
forebay
,
greenish
,
calcareous
,
sedimented
,
foetid
,
subsaline
,
upflow
,
reticulate
,
cultivatable
,
unfertile
,
submersed
,
reddish
,
putrefied
,
lanternfish
,
mucky
,
limy
,
jungly
,
stenohaline
,
alkaline
,
ammoniac
,
wadable
,
uncontaminated
,
entrained
,
scorpionfish
,
pebbly
,
unpurified
,
thready
,
puddled
,
calcic
,
puckery
,
swamp
,
supersaturated
,
unpolluted
,
miscible
,
waterish
,
shoreward
,
milky
,
loamy
,
subglacial
,
distributary
,
parched
,
bay salt
,
discolored
,
bilge
,
undrained
,
ratfish
,
putrid
,
undersaturated
,
sludgy
,
unicellular
,
brackish
Examples by Brain Bank Users
By: Jamie
From:
Words From Novels or Stories - Dec 2018
The coffee I made this morning was brackish, I think I the milk was foul.
The soup my wife made was brackish, even though she did not add much salt. The saltiness must have came from the new boxed broth she used.