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Pitchy vs Atrocious - What's the difference?

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Pitchy is a related term of atrocious.


As adjectives the difference between pitchy and atrocious

is that pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch while atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.

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.
  • atrocious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
  • Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
  • Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "atrocious" is often applied: crime, act, murder, condition, spelling, grammar.