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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1827 extremely dark ; pitch-black

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pitch-dark Pitch"-dark`, a. Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also pitch dark Pitch-dark means the same as pitch-black. It was pitch-dark in the room and I couldn't see a thing. = pitch-black ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dark as pitch, very dark.