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Synonyms for pitch

66 synonyms
2 antonyms
6 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

throw tone promote peddle gear cast aside

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Toss — to throw

toss, throw, launch, heave, chuck, tone, cast, set, hurl, send, shy, project, fling, lob, place, stick, bowl, deal, tumble, fix, establish, dash

2. Promote

promote, peddle, huckster, hawk, pimp, vend, tout, monger, spruik rare AU

3. Slope

slope, dip, incline, decline

4. Slant

slant, tilt, cant

Other

gear, sky, shift, deliver, key, fall, flip, lurch, cast aside, encamp

Noun

1. Tar — A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar

tar, bitumen, asphalt, coal tar

2. Sales talk

sales talk, sales pitch

Other

field, soccer field, track, high low jack, range, delivery, rake, measure, degree, standing, throw-away, extent

Antonyms

All antonyms of pitch →

Definitions

v. 1
To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
v. 2
To cover or smear with pitch.
n. 1
A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
n. 2
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

Related words

Word family: pitch-black pitchblende pitch-dark pitchlike pitchman pitchmeter pitchometer pitcher
Phrases: pitch into pitch in pitch apple pitch a fit pitch blackness pitch pine sales pitch pitch woo

Forms

Plural: pitches → tars, bitumens, asphalts, fields…
Past participle: pitched
e.g. pitched → tossed, thrun, launched, heaved…

Example sentences

throw His house is within a stone's throw of his school.
tone Did you pick up on that strange tone in his voice?
promote We must promote commerce with neighboring countries.
peddle Newspapers peddle disaster scenarios.
gear We had to gear our lives to the new circumstances.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
pitch		steady
throw		rising
tone		rising
promote		rising
peddle		steady
gear		falling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: set¹, key¹, fix¹, sky¹, shy¹, dip¹, tar¹, lob¹
4 letters: deal¹, send¹, fall¹, cast¹, bowl¹, tone¹, gear¹, cant¹, flip¹, dash¹, toss¹, hawk¹, tilt¹, pimp¹
5 letters: place¹, field¹, range¹, track¹, throw¹, stick¹, shift¹, chuck¹, slope¹, fling¹, slant¹, heave¹, lurch¹
6 letters: degree², launch¹, extent², tumble², peddle², monger², encamp², spruik
7 letters: project², measure², promote², deliver³, decline², asphalt², incline², bitumen³
8 letters: standing², delivery⁴, huckster²
9 letters: establish³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (degree² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: tanguer
Español: cabecear
Deutsch: nicken
Català: balancejar