pitch blackness

Thân thiện

The room was plunged into pitch blackness when the power went out.

Definition

Noun A state or condition of complete, absolute darkness; the total absence of light.

Usage

The term "pitch blackness" is used to describe an environment so dark that nothing can be seen. It emphasizes an extreme and often overwhelming lack of light. It functions as a noun phrase, typically serving as the subject or object of a sentence.

Examples

• The power outage plunged the city into pitch blackness.
• Inside the cave, we were surrounded by an impenetrable pitch blackness.
• Pitch blackness filled the room when the candle was extinguished.

Advanced Usage

• "the pitch blackness of (something)": This construction is used to specify the location or source of the complete darkness.
  • We were afraid of the pitch blackness of the forest at night.

Variants and Related Words

• Pitch-black (adjective): Describing something as being completely dark.
  • The night was pitch-black.
• Pitch-dark (adjective): Functionally identical to "pitch-black."
  • It was a pitch-dark alley.

Synonyms

• Darkness: The partial or complete absence of light (a more general term).
• Blackness: The quality or state of being black in color; often used interchangeably with darkness.
• Lightlessness: The state of having no light (a more technical term).
• Total darkness: A direct descriptive phrase with the same meaning.
• The black of night: A poetic or literary phrase for intense darkness.

Idioms and Related Phrases

• As black as pitch: An idiom comparing something's darkness to the deep black color of tar (pitch).
  • The sky was as black as pitch before the storm.

Học thuật

Noun

1. total absence of light
   • they fumbled around in total darkness
   • in the black of night

Từ đồng nghĩa

• total darkness
• lightlessness
• blackness
• black