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pitch-dark
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Princeton's WordNet
black, pitch-black, pitch-darkadjective
extremely dark
"a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
Wiktionary
pitch-darkadjective
Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.
The assassin crept into the royal bedchamber only after it was pitch-dark.
ChatGPT
pitch-dark
Pitch-dark refers to complete darkness or a state or environment where no light is present, making visibility entirely absent. The term originated from describing the darkness of pitch, a black viscous substance.
Webster Dictionary
Pitch-darkadjective
dark as a pitch; pitch-black
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pitch-dark in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pitch-dark in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of pitch-dark in a Sentence
Will Boyd're pulling up, pitch dark out, in a white Ryder truck. Maybe not the best idea, if somebody looks out the window they clearly know this is Amazon that's just pulled up.
Lighting is down. No light in the cells. All locked down since Thursday night. That's going on for at least 36 hours. When the sun goes down it's pitch dark. Inmates who have medical conditions can't read the instructions on the medications.
When we spotted flimsy rafts and boats with our searchlight in the pitch dark, my heart always skipped a beat, she said. We could see through binoculars that rubber rafts were bowing under the weight of so many people. Hundreds of eyes looking back at us — stunned and panicked, but hopeful they’d be rescued. [D]rowning isn’t the only cause of death.
It was pitch dark. He didn't see that crater.
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