brackish
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture
- "a thin brackish gruel"
- slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
- "a brackish lagoon"
Adj
- Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
- Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
- Repulsive
Origin / Etymology
From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak (“brackish”), German Low German brack, brakerg, brakig (“brackish”), German brackig (“brackish”), Danish brak (“brackish”), Swedish bräck (“brackish”), Norwegian brakk (“brackish”). Perhaps a distant doublet of brook.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
brackish is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbrackish is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
brackish is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 20
brackish is a valid Words With Friends word