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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture;
- Example: "a thin brackish gruel"

2. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water);
- Example: "a brackish lagoon"
- Example: "the briny deep"
[syn: brackish, briny]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brackish
    adj 1: distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin
           brackish gruel"
    2: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of
       seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny
       deep" [syn: brackish, briny]