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pitch-black

adj

Etymology

From pitch (“tar”) + black. Compare West Frisian pikswart (literally “pitch-black”), Dutch pikzwart (literally “pitch-black”), German pechschwarz (literally “pitch-black”), Swedish becksvart (literally “pitch-black”), Icelandic biksvartur (literally “pitch-black”).

  1. inherited from *bʰleg-✻
  2. inherited from *blakaz✻
  3. inherited from *blak✻
  4. inherited from blæc
  5. inherited from blak
  6. formed as pitch-black — “pitch + black”

Definitions

  1. Very dark

    Very dark; without light.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pitch-black. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA