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Definition: Pitchy |
PitchyAdjective1. Of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal. 2. Having the characteristics of pitch or tar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pitchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Adj. Resembling the appearance or properties of pitch. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PitchySynonyms: coal-black (adj), jet (adj), jet-black (adj), resinous (adj), resiny (adj), sooty (adj), tarry (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: stickier (chemistry), stickiest (chemistry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Resin | Adjective: resiny, resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic,Adjective: resiny, resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic, asphaltite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pitchy |
| English words defined with "pitchy": Black warrior ♦ Picene, Piceous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pitchy": Pitchiness. (references) |
| "Pitchy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pitchy" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pitchy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pisidia | N/A | Biblical | Pitchy |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Language | Translations for "pitchy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrëshinor (resinaceous, resiniferous, resinous), ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous), i zi (black, bold, coaly, darksome, ebon, ebony, inky, mourning, nigrescent, Raven, sable, sooty, unfortunate). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاحم, مثير للشفقة (pathetic, sorry, woeful), اهل للرثاء, شديد السواد (black), داع للشفقة, بئس. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смолист (gummy, resinaceous, resinous), черен като катран (pitch-black), катранен. (various references) | |
Czech | smolný (unlucky), èerný jako smola (jet black). (various references) | |
Danish | tjærelignende (pitchlike, sticky). (various references) | |
Dutch | kleverig (sticky). (various references) | |
Finnish | pikinen, pihkainen (resinous), takertuva (pitchlike, sticky), tahmea (sticky, viscid, viscous). (various references) | |
French | poisseux (pitchlike), noir comme poix (pitch-black), comme un poix. (various references) | |
German | pechartig (pitchlike, sticky). (various references) | |
Greek | μαύροσ (black, colored, coloured, negro, sable), πισσώδησ, πισσώδης (pitchlike, sticky, tarry-smelling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szurkos (pitching, tarry). (various references) | |
Manx | pickagh (asphaltic, bivalent, saving). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pegajoso (clammy, clinging, clingy, cloggy, dauby, gluey, gummy, lentous, limy, ropy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, viscid, viscous), píceo, semelhante ao asfalto (pitchlike, sticky), semelhante a pez, negro como pez, feito com pez, da natureza do pez. (various references) | |
Russian | смолистый (gummy, resinaceous, resinous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smolast (clammy, cloggy, resinaceous). (various references) | |
Spanish | parecido a la pez, oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, shadowy, twilight, vat), negro (black, black man, blacking, colored, coloured, coon, dark, ebony, gloom, gloomy, jim crow, Negro, nig-nog, Raven, sable, stout). (various references) | |
Swedish | tjärliknande (Tarry), kådig (resinaceous), becksvart (pitch black, pitch-black), beckig. (various references) | |
Turkish | zift gibi, kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смоляний, смолистий (balmy, gummy, resinaceous, resinous), чорний як смола (ebony, pitch-black). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Pitchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ditchy, kitchy, petchii, piatchy, picchi, Pichey, Pichi, picty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: itchy, pitch, pithy, typic. | |
-2 letters: chip, chit, city, itch, pith, pity, pyic. | |
-3 letters: chi, hic, hip, hit, hyp, ich, icy, phi, pht, pic, pit, thy, tic, tip, yip. | |
-4 letters: hi, it, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-p-t-y" | |
+1 letter: diptych. | |
+2 letters: diptychs, hypnotic, kyphotic, oophytic, patchily, phyletic, phytonic, pitchily, pythonic, triptych, typhonic. | |
+3 letters: copyright, epiphytic, holotypic, hypnotics, hypocrite, hypotonic, lymphatic, myopathic, physicist, psychotic, triptychs. | |
+4 letters: bryophytic, copyrights, cytopathic, cytophilic, diphyletic, dystrophic, endophytic, halophytic, hermatypic, holophytic, hypertonic, hypocrites, hypostatic, hypotactic, lymphatics, mesophytic, metaphysic, mythopoeic, patriarchy, periphytic, phagocytic, phatically, phenotypic, photically, photolytic, physicists, phytotoxic, polymathic, psychiatry, psychotics, sociopathy, sphericity, syphilitic, triglyphic, xerophytic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Derived from 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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