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Pitchy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PITCH'Y, a. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; like pitch.
1. Smeared with pitch.
2. Black; dark; dismal; as the pitchy mantle of night.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. full of pitch ; tarry b. of, relating to, or having the qualities of pitch 2. pitch-black

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (pitchier, pitchiest) of, like, or dark as pitch.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pitchy Pitch"y, a. [From 1st Pitch.] 1. Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch. 2. Smeared with pitch. 3. Black; pitch-dark; dismal. ``Pitchy night.'' --Shak.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dark, black, dismal, rayless, sunless, Cimmerian, piceous.

Moby Thesaurus

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