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nouna 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
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adjectiveas if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened
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nouna heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
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"gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"adjectivecharacterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
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nounextinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilastype of:
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characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German
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of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
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of or relating to the Goths
Examples of gothic
- "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"