What's the difference between goth and gothic?

Goth


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
  • (n.) One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lisbeth Salander is a violent and emotionally uncommunicative tattooed and much-pierced goth who grew up in care, and has had serious mental health issues.
  • (2) Sorrentino, who won the best foreign language film Oscar for The Great Beauty, has worked with English-speaking actors before, having cast Sean Penn in his goth-rocker road movie This Must Be the Place , which was selected for the Cannes film festival.
  • (3) Megan Carpentier: I hoard SPF 70 like liquid gold I’m white even by the standards of white people: not only did I earn the nickname Caspar growing up (long before I went goth, thanks for asking), but in the summer of 1998, which I spent studying in Munich, three random Germans stopped me on the streets over July and August to ask if I was feeling okay because I was so pale.
  • (4) Results of a recent study (FRITSCH and GOTHE 1979) have lent support to the hypothesis that immunosuppression can be induced by an inhibition of antigen processing by macrophages through a membrane-stabilizing effect of the chemicals under investigation.
  • (5) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
  • (6) Snow, one of the 280 SuicideGirls, explained the scene to the Boston Globe : "There's punk, goth, alternative - everyone is involved in music and arts.
  • (7) Following that came the superior Tommy Heavenly6, for which she adopted a goth-lite style and made rollicking 90s-style alt-rock.
  • (8) She looks pale and withdrawn; the only evidence that she's Charli XCX , spiky goth-pop starlet, are the six-inch platform Buffalo trainers hanging from her feet.
  • (9) As well as offering thousands of looks that could transform a suited dandy into a health goth and back again, there are also boutiques in the basement that will bleach your hair, wax your bottom, even pierce and tattoo you if you wish.
  • (10) The This Must Be the Place award for potentially dubious goth-rocker act In 2011, Sean Penn's Robert Smith-alike in the Paulo Sorrentino drama got tongues wagging and heads shaking.
  • (11) Even those pantomime granddad goths, Black Sabbath, got their first number one album after 46 years .
  • (12) Even today, Smith bristles slightly at the term "goth", not because he dislikes the term, but because "it's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band … we were like a raincoat, shoegazing band when goth was picking up."
  • (13) Looks a little groovier than her responsibilities might suggest: partial to uniformly black, goth-ish attire, and red patent boots.
  • (14) "When I started writing with her," Green says, "I realised there was something almost goth about her … There's something kind of haunted or grave about her delivery."
  • (15) Eternal Cannes bridesmaid Pedro Almodóvar, too, went home empty handed for The Skin I Live In, as did Paulo Sorrentino's goth-odyssey This Must Be The Place, which had been tipped to win an acting award for Sean Penn as a washed up rocker.
  • (16) Betty Harris, rather half-heartedly dressed as Mary Wollstonecraft in a modest outfit from M&S (I think of Wollstonecraft as more of a goth), said: "This is the problem in a nutshell – when I looked up Mary Wollstonecraft in a dictionary, it said: 'See under Godwin.'"
  • (17) The Animentals range from the depressed Goth penguin Pingoth to the highly unstable Furball.
  • (18) Our neighbouring north London branch, Gothic Valley , is the WI's first goth group, though you don't have to be a goth to join.
  • (19) This Must Be The Place (2011) starred Sean Penn as an ageing Goth rocker and met with a lukewarm reception.
  • (20) At 15 he became a goth for pragmatic reasons – he had a series of goth girlfriends.

Gothic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
  • (n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (2) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
  • (3) I remember putting on Gothic in 1986 as the finale of the London film festival.
  • (4) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
  • (5) When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky.
  • (6) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
  • (7) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
  • (8) In a nutshell: Sandcastle settlements Poland – Impossible Objects Gothic fantasies ... the Poland pavilion.
  • (9) Gothic began with exotic locales set in the distant past; one of the Victorian period's innovations was to draw this alien otherness back to Britain itself, to the here and now.
  • (10) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
  • (11) Compare the credits of current gothic ITV procedural Whitechapel and Channel Five's high-concept US import Under the Dome .
  • (12) This discovered gothic quality within everyday life found one of its finest expressions in the American work of French-born director Jacques Tourneur , especially the brilliant Cat People (1943), Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Night of the Demon (1957).
  • (13) I was happily haunted for many years afterwards by the spooky gothic stairs, halls, corridors and windows I had witnessed vanishing into a kind of architectural gloaming even in the middle of a bright June day.
  • (14) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
  • (15) Bradlee’s old chair, the conference table used in the newsroom during Watergate, the lead plate for the front page headlined “Nixon resigns” and the Gothic-lettered Washington Post sign will all be preserved.
  • (16) (It is surprising how little actual violence there is in the best gothic films.)
  • (17) The city's splendid neo-gothic town hall is to be closed for the day on Wednesday.
  • (18) The inter-maxillary relationship at the horizontal level was obtained by using a gothic arch recording.
  • (19) (The idea of the soul captivates gothic films from Dracula to The Devil Rides Out , though most tend to express that fascination through  ssaults on the body, achieving carnality in sexual desire or in gore.)
  • (20) "At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over.