pitch-black
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈpɪtʃ blæk/
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negro azabache
- The forest was completely pitch-black at midnight, making it hard to see anything.
- pitch-black darkness
- pitch-black room
- pitch-black night
Make sure your room is pitch black and cold at night.
- Make sure your room is pitch black and cold at night.
- It was at a dock and we, it's pitch black out there, right?
- It is pitch black and there are so many animal noises.
- We are stuck and stranded in the woods on the side of the highway, pitch black, pitch black.
- We ran the marathon course in the in pitch black in the middle of the night.
- Absolute total darkness, pitch black, terrified.
- She would fly through the air and I go down and it's pitch black and I'm just in the darkness.
- The the black levels of the OLED were absolutely pitch black.
- Like imagine you're off course or you're on a course that's off trail and you're it's pitch black.
Examples
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Soon the cave would be pitch black.
Fiction book (1999) -
The room went pitch black, and for a moment, she thought she was losing consciousness.
Fiction book (1999) -
Make sure your room is pitch black and cold at night.
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As you can see, it is still pitch black outside.
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It's pitch black out there.
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Without any power, the whole house will be pitch-black.
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After a while, it was pitch black except for the beam of light scanning the trail in front of us.
Fiction book (1999) -
Street lighting was unknown, and it was pitch-black everywhere at night except over the roads.
Blog text (11) -
It was almost pitch black by this time, so they weren't sure at first what it was.
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Inside it's pitch black; the air is hot and wet with the sweet fetor of rotting grass.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
Very dark in color like coal or the night
∞
1.0
With little or no light and not bright
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3.4
There is no light at all, like a room with no windows
3
3.9
Very black like coal or a dark night
2
5.1
Completely dark so you cannot see anything
1
2.8
Very dark like the color of coal
Completely black like coal
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Pitch-black comes from pitch, a thick, sticky black tar once used to seal boats, and black, so it means 'as black as pitch'. So, pitch-black describes something 'completely dark' with no light.