Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely dark; black as pitch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Black as pitch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Black as pitch or tar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
very dark ; withoutlight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a very dark black
- adjective extremely dark
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Examples
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Twisting in the pitch-black water, he raised his hands and felt slippery limestone above him.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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It was pitch-black at the bottom of the stairway, but then the rabbi flipped the light switch and David saw a large room with cinderblock walls.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Jeffery Wagner for The Wall Street Journal Through the goggles, the landscape, including Mr. Coiner, seen here, appears bathed in green light despite the pitch-black night.
Wild Pig Hunting 2011
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Every fifty feet or so it turned to the left or right, and because the tunnel was pitch-black there was no way to see the turns coming.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Twisting in the pitch-black water, he raised his hands and felt slippery limestone above him.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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The men advanced in the sweltering, pitch-black night, scanning the landscape with night-vision goggles and armed with semiautomatic rifles fitted with silencers.
Special Ops, Pig Patrol: Commando Wannabes Stalk Porky Kris Hudson 2011
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Again, I have difficulty separating personal experience from a purely civilian perspective; I have had to rely on a second (and third) magazine, and was able to accomplish that smoothly in pitch-black conditions.
This thing doesn't have a handguns option. I'm looking at getting a Beretta 92FS. 2010
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Again, I have difficulty separating personal experience from a purely civilian perspective; I have had to rely on a second (and third) magazine, and was able to accomplish that smoothly in pitch-black conditions.
This thing doesn't have a handguns option. I'm looking at getting a Beretta 92FS. 2010
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We should exercise at least as much caution with those we'll be stuck with in a succession of pitch-black chambers over the subsequent 45 minutes.
Lacking Blind Faith Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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It was pitch-black at the bottom of the stairway, but then the rabbi flipped the light switch and David saw a large room with cinderblock walls.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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