: extremely dark : pitch-black

Examples of pitch-dark in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In Merlo’s delirious play—staged by the director Jack Serio with the audience seated at a long table in a pitch-dark room—a genderqueer teen is missing, and their detective father is on the case. The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024 The pitch-dark periphery engulfing the stage, a signature of the director Michael Greif, encourages such moments of tunnel vision, though O’Hara accomplishes the effect on her own. Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024 Two young men sat next to it, around a fire, in an otherwise pitch-dark street, their feet covered in mud and clothes in dust. Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023 Noah Agemo for Fortune The snow is falling heavily in Stockholm, but inside a small, pitch-dark auditorium, the atmosphere is cozy and warm. Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023 Lines formed at old wells as people lugged jugs of water to pitch-dark apartments in Kyiv. Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023 Astyanax mexicanus cave fish have adapted to an incredibly tough environment: chilly, pitch-dark caves that flood about once a year, providing brief feasts separated by long periods of starvation. Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pitch-dark was in 1704

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“Pitch-dark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-dark. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

pitch-dark

adjective
ˈpich-ˈdärk
: extremely dark
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