Pitchy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pitchy \Pitch"y\, a. [From 1st {Pitch}.]
     1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
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     2. Smeared with pitch.
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     3. Black; pitch-dark; dismal. "Pitchy night." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pitchy
       adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
              [syn: {coal-black}, {jet}, {jet-black}, {sooty}]
       2: having the characteristics of pitch or tar [syn: {resinous},
           {resiny}, {tarry}]
       [also: {pitchiest}, {pitchier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "pitchy":
     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