- pitchy
- adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. full of pitch ; tarry b. of, relating to, or having the qualities of pitch 2. pitch-black
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Pitchy — Pitch y, a. [From 1st {Pitch}.] 1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch. [1913 Webster] 2. Smeared with pitch. [1913 Webster] 3. Black; pitch dark; dismal. Pitchy night. Shak. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pitchy — [pich′ē] adj. pitchier, pitchiest 1. full of pitch; smeared with pitch 2. thick or sticky like pitch 3. black … English World dictionary
pitchy — pitchiness, n. /pich ee/, adj., pitchier, pitchiest. 1. full of or abounding in pitch. 2. smeared with pitch. 3. resembling pitch, as in color, consistency, etc.: pitchy mud. 4. dark or black as pitch. [1505 15; PITCH2 + Y1] * * * … Universalium
pitchy — adjective a) Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch. , Manceaster, what we now call , spins no cotton […] The Creek of gurgles, twice in the four and twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea fowl; and is a Lither Pool, a lazy or… … Wiktionary
pitchy — Synonyms and related words: 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,… … Moby Thesaurus
pitchy — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. shadowy, gloomy, black; see dark 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of the darkest achromatic visual value: black, ebon, ebony, inky, jet1, jetty, onyx, pitch black, sable, sooty. See COLORS … English dictionary for students
pitchy — pitch·y || pɪtʃɪ adj. black; covered with tar; full of tar … English contemporary dictionary
pitchy — adjective (pitchier, pitchiest) of, like, or as dark as pitch … English new terms dictionary
pitchy — a. Dark, black, dismal, rayless, sunless, Cimmerian, piceous … New dictionary of synonyms
pitchy — adj 1. tarry, bituminous, resinous, sappy; gummy, tacky, sticky. 2. black, coal black, jet, jetty, pitch black; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, nigritudinous, atramentous; blackish, nigrescent; dark, unilluminated, lightless, unlighted, moonless … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
