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pitchier

pitchier is the comparative form of pitchy.

Meaning of pitchy

Adjective (1)

pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
  2. Very dark black; pitch-black.
    • Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Adjective (2)

pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)

  1. Off pitch; out of tune.
    • […] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.2014, Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music, page 381

Questions about pitchier

What is pitchier the comparative form of?
Pitchier is the comparative form of pitchy.

Words near pitchier in the dictionary

  1. pitchforkings
  2. pitchforklike
  3. pitchforks
  4. pitchforksful
  5. pitchi
  6. pitchier
  7. pitchiest
  8. pitchily
  9. pitchin'
  10. pitchiness
  11. pitching

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