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”).
pitch-black (comparative more pitch-black, superlative most pitch-black)
- Very dark; without light.
- Synonyms: black as coal, black as tar, black as night
- Sometimes, pitch is treated as if it means "intense" or "dark", leading to the alternative superlative pitchest-black.
of the blackest black
- Azerbaijani: qapqara
- Bulgarian: черен като катран (čeren kato katran)
- Catalan: negre d'atzabeja
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 黑沉沉 (zh) (hēichēnchēn), 漆黑 (zh) (qīhēi), 墨黑 (zh) (mòhēi), 烏黑／乌黑 (zh) (wūhēi), 黑漆漆 (zh) (hēiqīqī)
- Czech: černočerný (cs)
- Danish: kulsort, begsort
- Dutch: pikzwart (nl)
- Esperanto: peĉnigra
- Estonian: süsimust
- Finnish: pikimusta (fi), sysimusta (fi)
- French: noir complet, noir total, noir comme poix, nuit noire (fr)
- Galician: negro coma pez, negro coma a pez
- Georgian: კუპრისფერი (ḳuṗrisperi), ნახშირისფერი (naxširisperi), კუნაპეტი (ḳunaṗeṭi), უკუნი (uḳuni)
- German: pechschwarz (de), stockdunkel (de), stockfinster (de), jettschwarz (de)
- Greek: κατάμαυρος (el) (katámavros)
- Hungarian: koromfekete (hu), szurokfekete (hu)
- Icelandic: kolamyrkur (is) n, svartamyrkur (is) n
- Ingrian: pikimusta
- Irish: ciardhubh
- Italian: cupo (it), nero come la pece, buio pesto (it)
- Japanese: 漆黒の (ja) (しっこくの, shikkoku no)
- Latin: piceus
- Luxembourgish: pechschwaarz
- Maori: hinapouri, pouri ngihangiha, tuauriuri, niwaniwa
- Navajo: diłhił
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kullsvart, beksvart, bekmørk
- Nynorsk: kolsvart, beksvart
- Portuguese: preto como carvão
- Romanian: negru complet, negru ca tăciunele
- Russian: смоляно́й (ru) (smoljanój), у́гольно-чёрный (úgolʹno-čórnyj), чёрный как смоль (čórnyj kak smolʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: dubh dorch
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мркли мрак m
- Roman: mrkli mrak m
- Spanish: negro como la pez, muy oscuro
- Swedish: kolsvart (sv), becksvart (sv), beckmörk (sv), kolmörk (sv), ramsvart (sv), gagatsvart
- Turkish: zifiri karanlık
- Vietnamese: tối om (vi), tối thui (vi), tối đen (vi)
- Welsh: pygddu (cy), purddu
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