pitchy
/ˈpɪt͡ʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
adj
Very dark black; pitch-black.
adj
Off pitch; out of tune.
Example Sentences
- "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!"
- "In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway."
- "But each time the night over the hills remained pitchy black. Then the rain came on more heavily again."
- "To make it worse, something went wrong wit the Glow-worm's lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness."
- "[…] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice."