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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pitch-black
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was pitch-black outside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first she found the pitch-black darkness of the Motabeng night terrifying.
▪ He drove over, parked the car on a pitch-black Kelly Street.
▪ In October, put the plant in a pitch-black room for 14 hours a day.
▪ It was pitch-black and still oppressively hot.
▪ Lucky had run away from them on a pitch-black night in August.
▪ Normally the snow looks light against the pitch-black trees, but today even the snow was almost black.
▪ The curious little craft, with its extraordinary crew, slowly edged its way across the pitch-black waters.
▪ When we draw up in a pitch-black stonewalled alley I wonder about his reaction.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitch-black

Pitch-black \Pitch"-black`\, a. Black as pitch or tar.

Wiktionary
pitch-black

a. very dark; without light. alt. very dark; without light.

WordNet
pitch-black

adj. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler" [syn: black, pitch-dark]

Usage examples of "pitch-black".

David replied, his voice being heard in the pitch-black sweatbox for the first time.

After an hour of tramping through the pitch-black forest to locate the source of the intermittent drumbeats they heard, they had decided on another course of action.

There's no power aboard the ship, so he uses a flashlight to get down the pitch-black passageways to shit outside, in a chemical toilet installed near the faded shuffleboard outlines on deck.

That vacuum was dark, even pitch-black but here and there came momentary suggestions of vague light and color.

The shiptree, sensing light and nutrients like a flavor on its hull, and its birdcage companion, the alien creature in a multiplicity of bodies that felt space as the twisted, tessered outline of a Klein bottle groped by hand in a pitch-black room.

They had been a beautiful, perfectly contrasted ebony-and-ivory couple, she long, languid, pale, he equally long, but a pitch-black African-American, and a hyperactive one at that, a hunter, fisherman, weekend driver of very fast cars, marathon runner, gym rat, tennis player, and, lately, thanks to the rise of Tiger Woods, an obsessive golfer too.

More light leaked from the translucent face shield of the virching helmet, the phantom watery glow of the menu bar falling off his own brow onto the pitch-black wings of the aircraft.

They had snow-white or pitch-black beards, miters and amulets and chains and crosiers.

It's like playing Halloween party games in a pitch-black room, like for months—.

It's like playing Halloween party games in a pitch-black room, like for months-but if you lose, someone kills you.

Out by Piqua Road in Thoroughfare, the sky would be pitch-black, huge, and serene.

I remember thinking that this idea of children-colors had been lifted by authors Clare Quilty and Vivian Darkbloom from a passage in James Joyce, and that two of the colors were quite exasperatingly lovelyOrange who kept fidgeting all the time, and Emerald who, when her eyes got used to the pitch-black pit where we all heavily sat, suddenly smiled at her mother or her protector.

HE REACHED ITS HULL, AND PLACED ONE HAND ON ITS pitch-black surface as he trod water, shaking the sea from his hair and eyes.