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[ pich-ee ] / ˈpɪtʃ i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pitchy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, pitch·i·er, pitch·i·est.full of or abounding in pitch. smeared with pitch. resembling pitch, as in color, consistency, etc.: pitchy mud. dark or black as pitch. Origin of pitchyFirst recorded in 1505–15; pitch2 + -y1 OTHER WORDS FROM pitchypitch·i·ness, nounWords nearby pitchypitch shot, pitchstone, pitch surface, pitch wart, pitch woo, pitchy, pit dwelling, piteous, Pitesti, pitfall, pit grave Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pitchyHer pitchy performance of “Tik Tok” in particular seemed to attract the ire of SNL audiences. Lana Del Rey, Sinead O’Connor & More Worst 'SNL' Performances (Videos)|Melissa Leon|January 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!” Dead Cool: Florence Foster Jenkins|Simon Doonan|July 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST The songs, which have creaky titles like “All that Razz” and “Hooray for What's-not-good,” are belted out with pitchy gusto. The Worst Awards in Hollywood|Sean Macaulay|March 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST The pitchy gloom without makes the heart dilate on entering the room filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.|Washington Irving
Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean. The Three Lieutenants|W.H.G. Kingston The darkness grew into profound night, only broken by the blue and sulphurous flashes which darted from the pitchy cloud. Museum of Antiquity|L. W. Yaggy Rouvke, in his heart, addressed to his townswoman, on emerging from the pitchy darkness of the little bedroom. The Imported Bridegroom|Abraham Cahan John was now following one of these groups, but in the pitchy darkness he could not tell how many it numbered. Cattle-Ranch to College|Russell Doubleday
British Dictionary definitions for pitchy
adjective pitchier or pitchiestfull of or covered with pitch resembling pitch Derived forms of pitchypitchiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to pitchybrunet, clouded, coal, dingy, dusky, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, livid, murky, onyx, pitch, pitch-black, sable, shadowy, slate, somber, sooty, swarthy |