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brackish

English

Etymology

From Scottish brack (from Dutch brak (brackish)) +? -ish.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?æk??/

Adjective

brackish (comparative more brackish, superlative most brackish)

  1. (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
      ...by a low cour?e and too long ?porting with the briny Ocean it ta?ts bracki?h and in?alubrious...
    • 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.
  2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Repulsive (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

  • brackishly
  • brackishness

Translations

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unpleasant

English

Etymology

From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- +? pleasant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?plez?nt/

Adjective

unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)

  1. Not pleasant.
    • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
      O sweet Portia,
      Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
      That ever blotted paper!
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, p. 214,[2]
      It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets []
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 35,[3]
      The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
    • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1,[4]
      [] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them []
    • 1921, Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, Chapter 37,[5]
      And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.

Derived terms

  • unpleasantness

Synonyms

  • disagreeable

Translations

Anagrams

  • pennatulas

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