Значение

значений: 3
  1. Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

    1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.

    2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House. The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.

    brackig, salzig

    солонова́тыйsolonovátyj, солёныйsoljónyj

    slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)

  2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.

    brackig

    проти́вныйprotívnyj

    distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture

  3. Repulsive.

Примеры

предложений: 2
  1. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water.

  2. The mangrove ecosystem is a unique type of wetland that is adapted to brackish water.

Переводы

языков: 7
Русский
По значениям 2
slightly salty:
distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste:
Deutsch
По значениям 1
slightly salty:

Происхождение

From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak

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.

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Формы

more brackish, most brackish
Сравнительная степеньmore brackish Урок
Превосходная степеньmost brackish Урок

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 1
Близкие по смыслу
  • slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water):briny

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 5
Связанныеbrackishness

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соседние слова
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