gothic

gothic has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. 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
• n.. a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
• n.. 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
• a.. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
• a.. as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
• a.. of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"
• a.. of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"