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.
Compare gothic with other words:
gothic vs. poppyhead
acroterium vs. gothic
crocket vs. gothic
gothic vs. gothicism
gothic vs. vandalic
gothic vs. whiteface
gothic vs. romanticism
gothic vs. vaulted
gothic vs. ogive
gothic vs. perpendicular
flamboyant vs. gothic
gothic vs. vignette
cusp vs. gothic
gothic vs. transept
gothic vs. novel
gothic vs. grotesque
desolate vs. gothic
gothic vs. typeface
gothic vs. mysterious
gothic vs. macabre
gothic vs. violent
fiction vs. gothic
goth vs. gothic
gothic vs. language
germanic vs. gothic
gothic vs. horror