pitchy
Collocations
4ADJ.
black, correct
VERB + PITCHY
became, remained
PITCHY + NOUN
out-of-tune, singer's
ADV.
then
Definitions
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway.
adj
Off pitch; out of tune.
[…] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.
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4Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lith
WiktionaryIn front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway.
WiktionaryBut each time the night over the hills remained pitchy black. Then the rain came on more heavily again.
Wiktionary[…] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.
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