fresh water

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   water that is not salty

   Synonymsfreshwater

   Antonymssaltwater

   Broaderwater

   Narrowerraincondensate

Questions about fresh water

What does fresh water mean?

fresh water means "water that is not salty".

What is another word for fresh water?

Close synonyms include freshwater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fresh water?

The recorded antonyms are saltwater.

Is fresh water a common word?

fresh water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.