pitch-black

American  

[pich-blak] / ˈpɪtʃˈblæk /

adjective

1. extremely black or dark as pitch.

   a pitch-black night.

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pitch-black British  

adjective

1. extremely dark; unlit

   the room was pitch-black

2. of a deep black colour

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Etymology

Origin of pitch-black

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

It was pitch-black outside, and she wouldn’t tell me nothing anything.

From Literature

The result was pitch-black neighborhoods at night and dead traffic lights at intersections.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cameron Winter hunched over the keys on a nearly pitch-black stage at the downtown Los Angeles’s Palace Theatre.

From The Wall Street Journal

A man’s voice cut through the rain pelting the pitch-black Caribbean Sea, just audible between two boats tossed around by 10-foot waves.

From The Wall Street Journal

One witness described the incoming wave as a “wall of pitch-black water.”

From Literature