Thesaurus: gothic

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1. a. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
2. a. Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
3. n. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
4. n. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
5. n. The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
6. adj. characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
7. adj. of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
8. adj. of or relating to the Goths
9. n. 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
10. n. a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
11. n. 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
12. adj. as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened