Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitch-dark \Pitch"-dark`\, a. Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
Wiktionary
a. absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch. alt. absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch.
WordNet
adj. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler" [syn: black, pitch-black]
Usage examples of "pitch-dark".
And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its anaesthetic sleep.
Before long a sudden whirlwind arose, and drove away the pitch-dark mist usually hovering over the Land of Oblivion, and in the wan light, I could see myriads of livid candles, and by their gleam, I obtained a far-off view of the mouth of the bottomless abyss.
Shannon took copious notes, swearing at the inefficiency of a penlight for writing in the middle of a pitch-dark theater.
The light died out of the crystal below him, leaving the room pitch-dark but for the bluish echo in its heart Then he heard a sound, faint and distantly booming, a vibration that seemed to shake the Keep to the dark, ancient bones of its agelong foundations.
He said he thought he was certain he had seen somebody by the rick and it was Tom Bakewell who was the only man he knew who had a grudge against Farmer Blaize and if the object had been a little bigger he would not mind swearing to Tom and would swear to him for he was dead certain it was Tom only what he saw looked smaller and it was pitch-dark at the time.
They were under constant watch during the day and were made to sleep apart with tribeswomen during the terrible pitch-dark nights.
It was pitch-dark when we landed at the large Coalition airbase and started to unload the kit.
The instant Drew realized the terrifying implications of this pitch-dark basement room into which Mike had lured him, he automatically bent his knees, assuming the crouch Hank had made second nature for him.
We climbed out of the water into the desert, crawled from the desert into the high mountains, gasped and climbed out of me mountains into absolute pitch-dark blackness, then groped along into blinding light.