pitchy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pitch=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

pitchy, a. [From 1st Pitch.].

•  Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.  [1913 Webster]
•  Smeared with pitch.  [1913 Webster]
•  Black; pitch-dark; dismal.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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

THESAURUS

pitchy

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

ROGET THESAURUS

pitchy

Resin

N resin, rosin, gum, lac, sealing wax, amber, ambergris, bitumen, pitch, tar, asphalt, asphaltum, camphor, varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan, artificial resin, polymer, ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite, Dowex, Diaion, resiny, resinous, bituminous, pitchy, tarry, asphaltic, asphaltite.

Darkness

N darkness, absence of light, blackness, obscurity, gloom, murk, dusk, Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness, night, midnight, dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, blind man's holiday, darkness visible, darkness that can be felt, palpable obscure, Erebus, the jaws of darkness, sablevested night, shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra, sciagraphy, obscuration, occultation, adumbration, obumbration, obtenebration, offuscation, caligation, extinction, eclipse, total eclipse, gathering of the clouds, shading, distribution of shade, chiaroscuro, noctivagation, black body, hohlraum, black hole, dark star, dark matter, cold dark matter, dark, darksome, darkling, obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black, caliginous, black, sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), somber, dusky, unilluminated &c (illuminate), nocturnal, dingy, lurid, gloomy, murky, murksome, shady, umbrageous, overcast, cloudy, darkened, dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus, benighted, noctivagant, noctivagous, in the dark, in the shade, brief as the lightning in the collied night, eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature, the blackness of the noonday night, the prayer of Ajax was for light.

Blackness

VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.