briny
About 0.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of, relating to, resembling, or containing brine (“water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt”), such as seawater or tears; salty.
on the briny deep
- adjective Of a person: difficult to get along with or to like; acerbic, prickly, unlikable.
- noun The ocean, the sea.
- adjective Especially of the sea: phosphorescent, shining.
Similar words
brackish salt main muriatic saline haline baltic salinometric saltational seawater
Often followed by
deep water sea ocean waters tears and smell air
Word family
brinier briniest brininess brininesses
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