pitchy

American  

[pich-ee] / ˈpɪtʃ i /

adjective

pitchier, pitchiest

1. full of or abounding in pitch.

2. smeared with pitch.

3. resembling pitch, as in color, consistency, etc..

   pitchy mud.

4. dark or black as pitch.

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pitchy British  

/ ˈpɪtʃɪ /

adjective

1. full of or covered with pitch

2. resembling pitch

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Other Word Forms

• pitchiness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of pitchy

First recorded in 1505–15; pitch ² + -y ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pitchy pitchiest

But three days into a string of seven-hour rehearsals, her voice collapsed, the high notes so long her hallmark dissolving into a pitchy wheeze.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

The glitchy, pitchy Vanellope remains something of a misfit heroine in her high-speed racing game, “Sugar Rush,” and she’s increasingly bored with its well-worn race tracks and retina-searing Candyland colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2018

These questions, pressed on, may open trapdoors onto pitchy voids.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018

Adele gave an uncharacteristically pitchy performance at last year's Grammys - after a rogue microphone fell on her piano strings and knocked everything out of tune.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2017

At first I only heard pitchy whispers stabbing the air around me.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Sounds there were as of things flapping from the walls, as of wood falling; but all was in the pitchiest darkness—a very “darkness which might be felt.”

From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

But the instinct of Pat would find out a cellar-door on the pitchiest night.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

The cold, grey light of earliest morning, that light which is rather the fading of night than the coming of day, filled the room with a faint hue, more cheerless than pitchiest darkness.

From Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Edward Bellamy

The range of this portrait painter's palette is from pitchiest black to most dazzling white, as of snow smitten by sunlight.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

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