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I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.
Leven Rambin

Meaning of "pitch-black" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PITCH-BLACK

pitch-black play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PITCH-BLACK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pitch-Black is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PITCH-BLACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pitch-black in the English dictionary

The definition of pitch-black in the dictionary is extremely dark; unlit. Other definition of pitch-black is of a deep black colour.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PITCH-BLACK

pitch in
pitch inspection
pitch into
pitch invasion
Pitch Lake
pitch on
pitch pine
pitch pipe
pitch shot
pitch-and-toss
pitch-cone angle
pitch-dark
pitchbend
pitchblende
pitched
pitched battle
pitcher
pitcher plant
pitcherful
pitchersful

WORDS THAT END LIKE PITCH-BLACK

antiblack
black
black-on-black
blue-black
boneblack
bootblack
carbon black
coal-black
eyeblack
gas black
in the black
ivory black
jet black
lack
lampblack
nonblack
platinum black
pollack
shoeblack
slack

Synonyms and antonyms of pitch-black in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PITCH-BLACK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pitch-black» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pitch-black
black · dark · ebony · inky · jet · pitchy · raven · sable · Stygian · unilluminated · unlit

Translation of «pitch-black» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PITCH-BLACK

Find out the translation of pitch-black to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pitch-black from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pitch-black» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

漆黑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pitch- negro
570 millions of speakers

English

pitch-black
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गहरा काला रंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملعب السوداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кромешная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

breu
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুচকুচে কালো, পীচের মত কালো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

noir comme poix
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

gelap gelita
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rabenschwarz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

漆黒の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

피치 블랙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pitch-black
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tối đen như mực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கார் இருள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिच-काळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

simsiyah
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nero come la pece
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czarny jak smoła
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непроглядна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Pitch - negru
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάμαυρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pikswart
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

becksvart
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

beksvart
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pitch-black

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PITCH-BLACK»

The term «pitch-black» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.380 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PITCH-BLACK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pitch-black» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pitch-black» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pitch-black

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2 QUOTES WITH «PITCH-BLACK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pitch-black.
1
Leven Rambin
I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.
2
Charles R. Swindoll
Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITCH-BLACK»

Discover the use of pitch-black in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pitch-black and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pitch Black: Fight Evil With Evil
A fantastic futuristic thriller of a deadly new frontier.
Frank Lauria, 2004
2
Pitch Black
Antony Horton, an African-American homeless man living in a subway tunnel, describes his life on the streets.
Youme, 2008
3
Pitch Black
Former profiler Alec Lambert would give anything to catch The Professor, a serial killer who lures his victims with Internet scams.
Leslie Parrish, 2009
4
Pitch Black: Color Me Lost
Sometimes she thinks maybe Jason had the right idea all along. This fourth book in the teen fiction series TrueColors deals with the important topics of grief, suicide, self-worth, identity, and handling tragedy.
Melody Carlson, 2014
5
Pitch Black
As lies emerge and tensions build, the players and managers live under the constant threat of becoming the next Kelvin fatality. Building to a dark and suspenseful climax, Pitch Black is Alex Gray's most powerful work to date.
Alex Gray, 2011
6
Pitch Black
This title is a novel for all who love football and sport, and especially for anyone who feels that football's moral high ground is still a battlefield worth fighting on.
Richard Brentnall, 2004
7
Pitch Black
Set in the turbulent 1950's, while Jackie Robinson is shattering racial barriers in the National Baseball League, Benny Turner, a teenager is growing up in the ever-changing nation's capital, Washington, DC. Despite his thin frame, Benny ...
Christine Turner Jackson, 2013
8
From Light to Pitch Black
A promising grad student's life turns from one filled with blissful wedding planning to life on the run. Is she the victim of circumstances ... or the mastermind behind it all?
C. A. Cooper, 2014
9
Pitch Black
Arthur Black -- beloved radio personality, newspaper columnist, best-selling author and twice winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour -- shows no symptoms of a weary funny bone with this book.
Arthur Black, 2005
10
Pitch black
"In this taut potboiler from Crandall (Promises to Keep, etc.), Philadelphia reporter Madison Wade moves to a quiet Tennessee town with her adopted son, Ethan, a tough street kid just starting to get his bearings.
Susan Crandall, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PITCH-BLACK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pitch-black is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Five Arrows
... I was in the middle of the woods, and the light, which had been right in front of me, suddenly blinked out, and I was in the pitch-black night. «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
2
10 terrifying stories about riding trains in Japan
I woke up at 2 a.m. in a pitch-black train on a siding in Fukuyama station where the train had been retired for the night. I had drool down my shirt ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
3
The inspiring story of Hannah Campbell almost killed by a mortar in …
The blistering 40C (105F) sun over the British military base, Camp Charlie, in the Iraqi desert near Basra had been blanked out by pitch-black ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Maine's Mount Katahdin a challenging climb
It would have been impossible scrambling down Katahdin's granite blocks in pitch-black wilderness, one hand holding a phone. Do I regret last ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
5
Filmmaker, Jazz Flutist, Oil Painter: Jack Kevorkian Lived His …
In fact, while the imagery of many Kevorkian's paintings was seen as morbid, nearly all of them had a sort of pitch-black humor lining their ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Film review: The Legend of Barney Thomson
There follows a pitch-black comedy of errors, in which Barney attempts to evade the self-serving neanderthal Glaswegian police while ... «City A.M., Jul 15»
7
These Pitch-Black Burgers Are Made from Grilled Flies
Let's face it, our life wouldn't be the same without burgers. Whether with a side of salad or nestled between two slices of bread, topped with a ... «Softpedia News, Jul 15»
8
Clueless turns 20: 6 way existential lessons it taught us
... high school girls) and certain elements (hyper-stylized dialogue and costumes) but in tone is the pitch-black yin to Clueless's sunny yang. «Vox, Jul 15»
9
Gillian Flynn's novel 'Gone Girl' has come to mean any vaguely …
The pre-Gone Girl Gone Girl Chances are that if you enjoyed Flynn's predilections for pitch-black twists and formidable female leads, then the ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
10
Kent: On solving movie mysteries, I'm clueless
Vicariously speaking, have you ever felt a greater sense of peril than for Clarice Starling as she felt around that pitch-black basement? Do you ... «Shreveport Times, Jul 15»

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