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gothic
gothic is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3noun
The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
- 4noun
A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
- 5noun
The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
- 6noun
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
- 7noun
a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
- 8noun
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
- 9adjective
characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
"gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
- 10adjective
as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
"a medieval attitude toward dating"
- 11adjective
of or relating to the Goths
"Gothic migrations"
- 12adjective
of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
"the Gothic Bible translation"
- 13adjective
characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
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