pitchy

comparative pitchier · superlative pitchiest

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
2. Very dark black; pitch-black.

   But each time the night over the hills remained pitchy black. Then the rain came on more heavily again.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 215

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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!

   1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

   In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway.

   1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 280

   To make it worse, something went wrong wit the Glow-worm's lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness.

   1961, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, Knopf, page 44

comparative pitchier · superlative pitchiest

1. entertainmentOff pitch; out of tune.

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

   2014, Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music, page 381