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 Additionally, if someone has an open wound, the CDC recommends staying out of saltwater or brackish water. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 People contract Vibrio by eating raw or undercooked seafood — raw oysters are a common culprit — or by exposing open wounds to brackish or salt water. — Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2026 Climate change is also fueling stronger hurricanes and storm surges, which have been associated with spikes in flesh-eating bacteria infection cases due to increasing contact with seawater or brackish water. — Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026 Warm, brackish gulf waters create ideal conditions for the bacteria, with Florida also reporting several severe cases. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 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
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  • This results in a watery, unappetizing texture, according to Southern Living.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The sugars react during high-heat cooking, causing potatoes to brown excessively and develop an unappetizing dark color or blotchy brown patches.
    — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of unappetizing
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  • Petrobras pumps mostly medium-sweet crude from this pre-salt layer.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • And energy intelligence platform Enverus estimates Brazil’s pre-salt production can hit as much as 4 million barrels per day by 2030.
    — Michelle Velez, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of salt
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  • Accommodation with the Houthis after more than a dozen civilians were killed in the airport attacks would be unpalatable.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has previously signaled that the White House is cautious about pushing too hard in defiance of the bond market—even if a hold or a hike in the base rate is politically unpalatable.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • Nearly 86 percent of wrists treated with saline hydrodissection had a clinically meaningful improvement in symptom severity at six months.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • To ensure durability in saline conditions, the researchers used butyl rubber and cover glass, topped with a transparent epoxy resin outer protective layer to build a waterproof, pressure-resistant, and corrosion-resistant armor.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of saline
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  • Tyson is at once scary, funny, personable, distasteful, introspective, superficial, articulate and incoherent.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Even more distasteful was their decision to flee to a country home while costarring in the movie 21 Days, essentially abandoning Olivier’s son and Leigh’s daughter, Suzanne.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of distasteful
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  • The volunteer panel acted as a neutral arbiter of sleazy attacks and other unsavory campaign tactics.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2026
  • After Anne Hathaway was announced to join Tom Cruise in Paramount’s Days of Thunder 2, Randy Quaid had some unsavory words for the Oscar-winning actress, who is currently pregnant with her third child.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of unsavory
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  • There’s a big data center that just came to my community not long ago and their community engagement was horrible, absolutely horrible.
    — Dustin DeSoto, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026
  • After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.
    — Amy Maxmen, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of horrible
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  • The polls still show a close-range contest, but in the increasingly nasty ad war, the spending suggests a far more lopsided fight.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Officers then cuffed the youngster as he was loaded into an ambulance and hospitalized for a fractured femur and a nasty bruise on his head, according to the lawsuit, which was filed by the teen’s dad, Mahmoud Saleh, in Brooklyn Federal Court.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
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“Brackish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brackish. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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