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Pitchy vs Gloomy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between pitchy and gloomy

is that pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch while gloomy is imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.

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.
  • gloomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
  • The cavern was gloomy .
  • Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  • a gloomy temper or countenance

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