: extremely dark or black

Examples of pitch-black in a Sentence

finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible a pitch-black cat with green eyes
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Those who attack guards or start fights are sent to small solitary confinement cells that are kept nearly pitch-black. George Petras, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025 The sounds of guttural growls and bone-chilling howls will once again echo throughout the pitch-black forest outside a Bavarian village when a new roller coaster with a familiar name and glowing red eyes returns to Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025 But the show itself isn’t so quick to ignore the pitch-black truths behind luxurious facades. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025 Hackman won his second Oscar for Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, a pitch-black Western about an outlaw turned farmer whose return to gunslinging puts him in the sights of Hackman's Sheriff Little Bill Daggett. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pitch-black

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pitch-black was in 1598

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“Pitch-black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-black. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

Kids Definition

pitch-black

adjective
ˈpich-ˈblak
: extremely dark or black
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