What does pitched mean?
Pitched means simple past and past participle of pitch.
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/pɪt͡ʃt/ · verb
simple past and past participle of pitch.
a pitched roof
The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.
If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.
a high-pitched scream
Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better.
a pitched battle
nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
Use pitched when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pitched means simple past and past participle of pitch.
Common synonyms include inclined.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a pitched roof
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