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unbriny

unbriny adjective: not briny.

Adjective

unbriny (comparative more unbriny, superlative most unbriny)

  1. Not briny.
    • Among the accidents on this unbriny sheet of water, but which has unavoidably crept in under this heading, was the loss of an ox belonging to David Barnhart.1883, Dennis Byron Waite, O-neh-da Te-car-ne-o-di: or, Up and down the Hemlock, G.E. Colvin & G.P. Wait, page 65
    • This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.November 10, 1917, Willard Connely, The Independent, Volume 92, "Making Sailors without Ships", Independent Publications, pages 299-300

Forms of unbriny

comparativemore unbriny
superlativemost unbriny

Origin of unbriny

From un- + briny.

Questions about unbriny

What does unbriny mean?
Unbriny means not briny.
What part of speech is unbriny?
Unbriny is an adjective.

Words near unbriny in the dictionary

  1. unbrilliant
  2. unbrilliantly
  3. unbrimmed
  4. unbrimming
  5. unbrined
  6. unbriny
  7. unbriquetted
  8. unbristled
  9. unBritish
  10. unbrittle
  11. unbroachable

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