Pitchy

//ˈpɪt͡ʃi// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
  2. 2
    Off pitch; out of tune.

    "[…] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice."

  3. 3
    Very dark black; pitch-black.

    "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!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having the characteristics of pitch or tar wordnet
  2. 2
    of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal wordnet

Synonyms

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resinousatramentousbeamlessblackblack as coalblack as ebony

Example

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"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!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.

Etymology 2

From pitch + -y.

Related phrases

out of tunepitch black

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