Pitchy vs Gloomy - What's the difference?
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(music) Off pitch; out of tune.
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
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)- 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!
gloomy
English
Adjective
(er)- The cavern was gloomy .
- a gloomy temper or countenance