Pitch-black (Adjective)
Meaning
Extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The cave was pitch-black, forcing us to rely on our headlamps for navigation.
- After the power outage, the city streets became pitch-black and eerily quiet.
- As I walked through the forest, the dense foliage overhead made it pitch-black, even in the middle of the day.
- The old basement was pitch-black, with cobwebs hanging from the ceiling like ghostly fingers.
- On the night of the new moon, the sky was pitch-black, filled with stars that twinkled like diamonds.