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# pitchy

«pitchy» in Mova's school dictionary: **as black as pitch, the sticky black stuff made from tar** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (pitchy, pitchier, pitchiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Pitchy means as black as pitch, the sticky black stuff made from tar. Old use, found in fairy tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a very dark night, land or place in old tales

### examples

- Upon the ground the land was pitchy black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchy/#x1)
- The cave was pitchy dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchy/#x2)
- Her hair was pitchy black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pitchy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitchy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.