gothic

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

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

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  medieval , mediaeval , Gothic , Gothic architecture , black letter