PITCH-BLACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitch-black mean? 

• PITCH-BLACK (adjective)
  The adjective PITCH-BLACK has 1 sense:

1. extremely dark

  Familiarity information: PITCH-BLACK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITCH-BLACK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extremely dark

Synonyms:

black; pitch-black; pitch-dark

Context example:

it was pitch-dark in the cellar

Similar:

dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)

Derivation:

pitch blackness (total absence of light)

 Context examples 

The curved and shadowed drive led us to a low, dark house, pitch-black against a slate-coloured sky.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)