pitch-black

pitch–black

adjective

Definition of PITCH-BLACK

1

being without light or without much light <finding anything in a pitch-black room is almost impossible>

Synonyms black, caliginous, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit

Related Words crepuscular, twilit; moonless, starless, sunless; cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster; shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling; ultrabright; glossy, lustrous, shiny; floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Antonyms bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

2

having the color of soot or coal <a pitch-black cat with green eyes>

Synonyms ebony, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, sable

Related Words dark, dusky, inky; blackish, brunet (or brunette)

Near Antonyms bright, brilliant, light, pale, palish

Antonyms white