Synonyms:
brackish, briny
Meaning: slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"
Synonyms:
brackish
Meaning: distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"
Usage examples
The water was warm and slightly brackish, but she needed it too much to mind.
The broad stretch of seaward trending sand, with its interlacing rivulets of fresh and brackish water, made a tempting though treacherous playground, alluring alike in the varied forms of life it harbored and in the adventure which whetted exploration.