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Itchiest vs Pitchiest - What's the difference?

itchiest | pitchiest |

As adjectives the difference between itchiest and pitchiest

is that itchiest is superlative of itchy while pitchiest is superlative of pitchy.

itchiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (itchy)

    • Anagrams

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    itchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch.

    • Derived terms

    * itchy feet * itchy trigger finger

    Related terms

    * itchiness

    References

    * The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary

    pitchiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (pitchy)

    • pitchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
  • Very dark black; pitch-black.
  • *1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
    • 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!
  • (music) Off pitch; out of tune.