Definition of Gothic

Noun

  • 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
    - gothic architecture
  • a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
    - black letter
  • 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

Adjective

  • characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
    "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
  • as if belonging to the Middle Ages
    old-fashioned and unenlightened
    "a medieval attitude toward dating"
  • 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
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Unscramble gothic

47 unscramble word found using the letters gothic.
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