Briny vs Brackish - What's the difference?
briny | brackish |
Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty
The sea
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(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
* 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
* 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4.
* 2004, , Random House.
; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (rfex)
(rfex)
As adjectives the difference between briny and brackish
is that briny is of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty while brackish is salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.As a noun briny
is the sea.briny
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Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(-)brackish
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ...by a low cour?e and too long ?porting with the briny Ocean it ta?ts bracki?h and in?alubrious...
- On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
- The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.