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pitchy

[ pich-ee ]

adjective

, pitch·i·er, pitch·i·est.
  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.


pitchy

/ ˈpɪtʃɪ /

adjective

  1. full of or covered with pitch
  2. resembling pitch


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpitchiness, noun

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Other Words From

  • pitchi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pitchy1

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

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Example Sentences

It’s full of steep, tight trees, pitchy chutes, and sneaky alleys.

The waves were small—around two to three feet—but steep and pitchy and would detonate in knee-deep water.

Back when I lived in Brooklyn in 2010, I used to take my 7’6″ funboard on the A train out to the Rockaways or on the Long Island Railroad to Long Beach, and while the waves are inconsistent and can be short and pitchy, they’re also really fun.

Her pitchy performance of “Tik Tok” in particular seemed to attract the ire of SNL audiences.

Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”

The songs, which have creaky titles like “All that Razz” and “Hooray for What's-not-good,” are belted out with pitchy gusto.

In the pitchy darkness, the messenger encounters him, and running full tilt against him, knocks the bunch of keys into the mud.

The heavens above were of a pitchy darkness, and the only light was from the creaming foam of the sea on every side.

Kneeling down at the opening in the platform, they leaned over and shouted Delray's name into the pitchy darkness below.

In the course of years of exposure to the air this pitchy material crystallizes, "ripens," and becomes spruce gum.

To add to our difficulties, the sky clouded over and pitchy blackness settled down.

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