It was pitch-dark outside tonight.
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Pitch-dark
Synonyms for "pitch-dark" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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1 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- тъмен като в рог adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 墨黑 adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- 漆黑 adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- 黑沉沉 adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Dutch
1 entries- pikzwart adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Finnish
2 entries- pilkkopimeä adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- säkkipimeä adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
French
1 entries- noir comme dans un four adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
German
2 entries- stockdunkel adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- stockfinster adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Ingrian
1 entries- pilkko pimmiä adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Irish
2 entries- chomh dubh le pic adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- dubh dorcha adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Italian
2 entries- nero come la pece adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- pesto adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Japanese
1 entries- 真っ暗な adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bekmørk adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Russian
3 entries- беспросве́тный adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- непрогля́дный adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
- чёрный как смоль adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Swedish
1 entries- beckmörk adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Tajik
1 entries- топ-торик adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Uzbek
1 entries- qop-qorongʻi adj (absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
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The night was pitch-dark. There wasn't the faintest star in the sky or a breath of wind. There was no babbling stream, there wasn't a single sound anywhere, and no smell of meadows or forest flowers.
Source: tatoeba (10492979)
It was pitch-dark in the cave.
Source: tatoeba (11085878)
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