'Brackish' definitions:
Definition of 'brackish'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"
adjective
Slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep" [syn: brackish, briny]
Definition of 'Brackish'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'brackish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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