brackish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: brack=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

brackish, 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

brackish, adj. (of water etc.) slightly salty.

Derivative

brackishness n.

Etymology

obs. brack (adj.) f. MLG, MDu. brac

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

brackish

Saltiness

N saltiness, niter, saltpeter, brine, salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny, salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife, salty, racy (indecent), take it with a grain of salt.