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pitchy

Pronunciation:  'pichee

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having the characteristics of pitch or tar
  2. [adj]  of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
 
 Synonyms: achromatic, adhesive, coal-black, jet, jet-black, resinous, resiny, sooty, tarry
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pitch"y\, a. [From 1st {Pitch}.]
1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.

2. Smeared with pitch.

3. Black; pitch-dark; dismal. ``Pitchy night.'' --Shak.

 
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 Related Terms: atramentous, beamless, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, caliginous, coal-black, coaly, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, deep black, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, gumlike, gummous, gummy, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, midnight, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrous, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, onyx, pitch-black, pitch-dark, raven, raven-black, rayless, resinic, resinoid, resinous, resiny, sable, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, starless, sunless, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit
 

 

 

 

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