pitchy

English

Etymology

pitch +‎ -y

Adjective

pitchy (comparative pitchier, superlative pitchiest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
2. Very dark black; pitch-black.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century

     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!

3. (music) Off pitch; out of tune.