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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

a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

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

characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"

of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"

of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"

characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German

Synonyms:

• Neanderthal,
• Philistine,
• Victorian,
• animal,
• antediluvian,
• antiquated,
• antique,
• archaic,
• barbarian,
• barbaric,
• barbarous,
• baroque,
• bestial,
• bizarre,
• bookless,
• brain-born,
• brutal,
• brutish,
• classical,
• coarse,
• crude,
• deceived,
• dream-built,
• extravagant,
• fanciful,
• fancy-born,
• fancy-built,
• fancy-woven,
• fantasque,
• fantastic,
• florid,
• fossil,
• fossilized,
• functionally illiterate,
• grammarless,
• grotesque,
• grown old,
• heathen,
• hoodwinked,
• ill-bred,
• ill-educated,
• illiterate,
• impolite,
• led astray,
• lowbrow,
• maggoty,
• medieval,
• mid-Victorian,
• misinformed,
• misinstructed,
• mistaught,
• noncivilized,
• nonintellectual,
• notional,
• of other times,
• old-world,
• outlandish,
• pagan,
• petrified,
• preposterous,
• primitive,
• rococo,
• rough-and-ready,
• rude,
• savage,
• superannuated,
• troglodytic,
• unbooked,
• unbookish,
• unbooklearned,
• unbriefed,
• uncivil,
• uncivilized,
• uncombed,
• uncouth,
• uncultivated,
• uncultured,
• unedified,
• uneducated,
• unerudite,
• unguided,
• uninstructed,
• unintellectual,
• unkempt,
• unlearned,
• unlettered,
• unlicked,
• unliterary,
• unpolished,
• unread,
• unrefined,
• unscholarly,
• unschooled,
• unstudious,
• untamed,
• untaught,
• untutored,
• whimsical,
• wild