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Gothic

noun

1 Gothic

Extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas.

Dutch: Gothisch

2 Gothic

A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries.

synonym: black letter.

Polish: gotyk

3 Gothic

A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches.

synonym: Gothic architecture.

Polish: styl gotycki, gotycyzm, gotyk

adjective

1 Gothic

Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German.

Polish: gotycki

2 Gothic

Of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths.

3 Gothic

Of or relating to the Goths.

Polish: gocki

4 gothic

As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened.

synonyms: mediaeval, medieval.

5 gothic

Characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more

Roget 241: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.   


Moby thesaurus: Neanderthal, Philistine, Victorian, animal, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, baroque, bestial, bizarre, bookless, brain-born, brutal, brutish, classical, coarse ... show more.

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