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Definition of Low-pitched
1. Adjective. Used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency.
Attributes: Pitch
Similar to: Alto, Contralto, Baritone, Bass, Deep, Contrabass, Double-bass, Throaty
Antonyms: High
Derivative terms: Lowness
2. Adjective. Set at a low angle or slant. "A low-pitched roof"
Definition of Low-pitched
1. Adjective. Of a sound, having a comparatively low pitch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-pitched
Literary usage of Low-pitched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The chopping-note is a low-pitched and abrupt note, Bounding like chop, chop,
uttered several times in quick succession, and is intermediate in quality ..."
2. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1903)
"... causing relative tricuspid insufficiency with its characteristic soft,
low-pitched, systolic murmur, heard best at the ensiform cartilage. ..."
3. The politics of Aristotle: books I-V : a revised text by Aristotle, Franz Susemihl, Robert Drew Hicks (1894)
"1113), that men advanced in life could not manage the high- strung keys, but
found the low-pitched ones naturally more suitable to them. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"more or less faint, low-pitched, humming, diastolic sound. Individual cases will
often show a sort of progression in this series as we listen with the ..."
5. The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine by New York Academy of Medicine (1886)
"Thus, at the apex, the low-pitched whisper, changed by transmission through ...
The non-conduction of such a low-pitched whisper—silence only—or the distant ..."
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