Usually means: Utterly devoid of any light.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word pitch-black:

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  1. pitch-black: Merriam-Webster
  2. pitch-black: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pitch-black: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pitch-black, pitch-black: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pitch-black: Vocabulary.com
  6. pitch-black: Wordnik
  7. pitch-black: Wiktionary
  8. pitch-black: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pitch-black: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pitch-black: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pitch-black, pitch-black: Dictionary.com
  12. pitch-black: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Pitch-black: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pitch-black: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. pitch-black: Rhymezone
  16. Pitch-black: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pitch-black: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pitch-black: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pitch-black: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pitch-black: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Very dark; without light.

Similar:
black, pitch-dark, dark, blacke, black as night, darkened, black as coal, lightless, darkling, midnight, more...

Opposite:
white, bright, light, glowing, illuminated

Types:
pitch black, midnight, black as pitch, black as coal, black as night, more...

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Similar:
black, pitch-dark, dark, blacke, black as night, darkened, black as coal, lightless, darkling, midnight, more...

Opposite:
white, bright, light, glowing, illuminated

Types:
pitch black, midnight, black as pitch, black as coal, black as night, more...



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