Pitchy

Origin

pitch + -y

Full definition of pitchy

Adjective

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
2. Very dark black; pitch-black.
• 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century, Manceaster, what we now call , spins no cotton … The Creek of 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!
3. (music) Off pitch; out of tune.