brackish

Speech parts

1. brackish - Adjective

2. brackish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

briny seacoast salt saline rank offensive foul salinity alkaline poisonous salty salted nasty pungent pickled

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Antonyms

good pure rich fresh beautiful attractive

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Phrases with the word

brackish solution brackish water porpoise brackish water tree brackish pea brackish archerfish

Examples

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all. Thiruvalluvar

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. Jon Krakauer

He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. James Joyce

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea? Percy Bysshe Shelley

Brackish water is sweet in a drought. Portuguese Proverb

On dry land even brackish water is good. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

bracketwise brackety Brackin brackish archerfish brackish pea brackish solution