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What is "pitchy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does pitchy mean in English? Meaning of pitchy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "pitchy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pitchy": of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

Adjective

  • Meaning: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
  • Synonyms: coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty
  • Similar: achromatic neutral

    • Meaning of "pitchy": having the characteristics of pitch or tar

    Adjective

  • Meaning: having the characteristics of pitch or tar
  • Synonyms: pitchy resinous resiny tarry
  • Similar: adhesive
  • Adjective: Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.Very dark black; pitch-black. 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!(music) Off pitch; out of tune.

    • Synonyms:

    brunet, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, livid, murky, onyx, pitch, pitch-black, sable, shadowy, slate, somber, sooty, swarthy, atramentous, charcoal, ebon, inklike, melanoid, obsidian, piceous, pitch-dark, raven, sloe, sombre, starless, stygian, swart,

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