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🌑 Very dark 🛢️ Like sticky tar
pitchy

pitchy

7.7
Thick and sticky like tar
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɪtʃi/
translation icon : pegajoso
  • The pitchy residue stuck to her hands, making the task of cleaning up much harder.

Examples

  • They were sitting in the golden glow of the fire, sipping tea, watching sparks from the pitchy pine wood pop and send showers of sparks up into the night air. Jondalar was feeling more rested, contented, and at ease than he had for some time.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The artist used a pitchy substance to create a dark, glossy finish on the sculpture.

  • As they hiked through the forest, they noticed the pitchy sap oozing from the trees.

Synonyms

resinous
vspitchy
1 7.3

Has a sticky, slightly oily feel and a strong pine smell

emphasizes dark thick stickiness rather than aromatic quality
tarry
vspitchy
1 7.9

Covered with a thick, sticky black material used on roads

is broader, showing sticky dark thick qualities of viscous material
resiny
vspitchy
6.8

Smelling and feeling sticky like pine sap

focuses on sticky dark thick coating rather than aromatic sap scent

Antonyms

clean
∞ 1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

How Sticky

pitchy
7.7
tarry
1 7.9
sticky
126 1.0
slimy
42 2.5
tacky
  • Specialized
4 4.9

Surface Forms

pitchy positive

Morphology

pitchy = pitch (transparent) = pitch + y

The adjective is formed by adding the common adjectival suffix '-y' to 'pitch', giving the sense 'resembling or covered in pitch'.

Etymology

Pitchy comes from the word pitch, meaning 'tar' or 'black sticky material'. So pitchy describes something that is like or covered in pitch — dark, thick, and sticky.