Words / C2

BRAK-ish/ˈbrækɪʃ/

Brackish means slightly salty, as of water mixed from river and sea; figuratively, stale and unpleasant: brackish water, a brackish tone. Fresh (already in the dictionary) is the everyday opposite of the water sense; salubrious (already in the dictionary) is healthy and pleasant to inhabit — the contrast of a good climate, not of salt. Opaque (already in the dictionary) is hard to see through, of prose. Do not file a cloudy slogan as a filled cell.

Meaning

Slightly salty, as of mixed fresh and sea water; also, figuratively, stale and unpleasant.

Examples

• “Brackish “transparency” talk still left the n empty.”
• “Fresh is everyday (already in A1) — the water opposite. Salubrious is healthy and pleasant (already in C2). Opaque is hard to see through (already in C2). A short true sentence can still be plain. A stale slogan that never states the n is a hole. Write the number; leave the estuary metaphor.”

Good to know

Slightly salty; stale (figurative). Everyday opposite: fresh (already in this dictionary). Contrast: salubrious (healthy — already in C2); opaque (obscure — already in C2). Talk ≠ an n.

Near in meaning

salty, briny, stale, unpalatable

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