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Definition of Pitch-dark
1. Adjective. Extremely dark. "It was pitch-dark in the cellar"
Definition of Pitch-dark
1. Adjective. Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitch-dark
Literary usage of Pitch-dark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha by Gaetano Casati (1891)
"... Temperance of the blacks—Clever but drunkards—Hunger and a piece of rope —Pitch
dark—Hearing and seeing—Perception of colours—The Mam- ..."
2. Lavengro; the scholar, the gypsy, the priest by George Henry Borrow (1872)
"Almost Calm-Freeh Store—History of Saul—Pitch Dark. HEAVINESS had suddenly come
over me, heaviness of heart, and of body also. I had accomplished the task ..."
3. The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, and the Rev. William by Horace Walpole, William Mason (1851)
"Lord George Gordon has had an audience of the king, and read an Irish pamphlet
to him for above an hour, till it was pitch dark, and then exacted a promise ..."
4. An American Poilu by Elmer Stetson Harden (1919)
"I've taken apart and put together a Hotchkiss machine gun so many times I could
perform the trick in the pitch dark, which, the Captain tells me, ..."
5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"One, o'er heaths wandering in a pitch-dark night, Making to sounds that hope some
village near, Hermit retreating to a chinky light, Song lost in winding ..."
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