brackish

adjective

ˈbra-kish How to pronounce brackish (audio)
Definition of brackishnext
1
as in unappetizing
disagreeable or disgusting to the sense of taste the office coffee is often some brackish brew that's been sitting around for a couple of hours

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2
as in salt
of, relating to, or containing salt the river becomes brackish as we approach the tidemark

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Recent Examples of brackish Made up of vast mangrove forests, brackish marshlands, and tons of tiny islands, the refuge shelters a wide variety of animals, including American alligators and crocodiles, Florida panthers, manatees, river otters, bottle-nosed dolphins, and more than 200 species of migratory birds. — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026 The grass performs well in the brackish conditions common to seaside golf courses and offers excellent chipping surfaces. — Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026 Blood and tissue samples turned up positive for Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacterium found in warm, brackish waters. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026 The high sodium concentrate, combined with elevated calcium, magnesium and potassium, creates a near-brackish water condition that’s from 10 to 20 times saltier than normal surface water, according to Mazloum’s report. — Arcelia Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brackish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brackish
  1. unappetizing
  2. salt
  3. unpalatable
  4. saline
  5. distasteful
  6. unsavory
  7. horrible
  8. nasty
Adjective
  • Try adding lemon, cucumber, or mint to your water to encourage hydration if plain water in the morning feels boring or unappetizing.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 19 June 2026
  • All those unappetizing items go in your brown yard waste cart, not the black trash cart or the blue recycle cart.
    — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 28 May 2026
Definition of unappetizing
Adjective
  • Why Baking Soda Works on Weeds The reason baking soda is effective in killing weeds is that one of its major ingredients is salt.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 17 May 2026
  • Star jasmine is moderately salt tolerant but not cold hardy.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 May 2026
Definition of salt
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  • To be sure, raising the payroll tax might be politically unpalatable for lawmakers, who would almost certainly face pushback from businesses and employees, experts note.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • Planing peppermint plants, garlic, and bright florals like daffodils and marigolds are options to keep squirrels away from their bright colors and unpalatable taste and odor.
    — Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 28 May 2026
Definition of unpalatable
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  • Vernaccia di San Gimignano, the region's only white DOCG, has now mostly shaken its reputation for blandness and its best growers are making fresh, saline expressions with shimmering delicacy.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Otherworldly in many ways, Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake on California’s eastern edge.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
Definition of saline
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  • South Florida beaches have been inundated by waves of sargassum in recent weeks — while visually distasteful to some, the seaweed is not usually harmful to humans, and occupies a critical niche in marine ecosystems.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • Even comedian Shane Gillis, who's been in hot water for his own distasteful jokes, wasn't a fan of Hokit's words.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
Definition of distasteful
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  • Moreover, a host of unsavory characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 July 2026
  • The goal of providing that commentary is to assure the market that the CFO switch isn’t related to anything unsavory happening with the accounting book.
    — Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 28 June 2026
Definition of unsavory
Adjective
  • And obviously, slavery was a terrible thing, and that was horrible.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • Horton, who married Rickman in 2012 in a private ceremony after more than 40 years together, also told the outlet that the diagnosis had been a horrible shock to them both.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
Definition of horrible
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  • The prettiest man in football landed a nasty elbow to Ireland’s Dara O’ Shea and was justifiably handed a red card.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2026
  • One is the true story of a white, nasty gentleman who had more power than anybody in the United States for longer, and the other is a love story between two gay people at a time when that had to be way, way, way down low.
    — K.J. Yossman, Variety, 7 July 2026
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