Inky vs Pitchy - What's the difference?
inky | pitchy |
of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
spattered or stained with ink
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(music) Off pitch; out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between inky and pitchy
is that inky is of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark while pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.inky
English
Adjective
(er)- Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
Synonyms
* black * dark * murkyAntonyms
* bright * clear * whitenedpitchy
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!
