Brackish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brackish \Brack"ish\, a. [See {Brack} salt water.]
     Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline
     soil.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish


           though they be.                          --Byron.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brackish
       adj : slightly salty; "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn:
             {briny}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "brackish":
     bad, barfy, briny, cloying, fetid, foul, fulsome, high, icky,
     maggoty, mawkish, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome,
     noxious, offensive, overripe, pickled, poisonous, rancid, rank,
     rebarbative, rotten, saline, salt, salted, saltish, salty,
     sickening, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky