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Princeton's WordNet

  1. coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot blackadjective

    a very dark black

  2. black, pitch-black, pitch-darkadjective

    extremely dark

    "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"

Wiktionary

  1. pitch-blackadjective

    very dark; without light.

ChatGPT

  1. pitch-black

    Pitch-black refers to complete darkness or absence of light, where visibility is extremely limited or non-existent. It represents the darkest possible shade.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pitch-blackadjective

    black as pitch or tar

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pitch-black in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pitch-black in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pitch-black in a Sentence

  1. Pete Cunningham:

    If I want to buy a new house then I can go around and I can check to see whether there is damp patches around or whether the current owners have painted over and tried to hide any issues with leaks or damp patches, so that's another great example, also silly things like I'm going into the bakers and getting the freshest bread, you can point the phone up and identify where the freshest bread is. Or I let my dog out in the evening and it's pitch black, so now I can find my dog without having to chase around and rummage in bushes.

  2. Naad-Dre Amos:

    A good night sleep in the dark helps anyone sleep good, calm, and peaceful, but sometimes sleeping in the dark is not people's idea, because some people don't like it when it's pitch black.

  3. Colin Wayne:

    Due to the force of the blast I suffered a concussion and I remember yelling for a medic but nobody was around me. It was pitch black, I couldnt see my hand in front of my face, my leg was throbbing in pain, I could barely breathe due to the massive amount of debris in the air. After a few minutes, two soldiers came in and got me, but those [four to five]minutes felt like hours. So coming back stateside, I have been told by family members that I was a lot more distant and that I had changed some.

  4. James Corrigan:

    It was pretty scary. The night before the fire hit, no one got any sleep at all, it was pitch black during the day.

  5. Donald Trump:

    If you had seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever anywhere. Pitch black. I have never seen anything like it.


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