gothic
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- adjective
- /ˈɡɑːθɪk/
- Archaic
- A simple two-story building with several gothic-arched windows, it faced a small public square shaded by tall ficus trees.
- gothic revival
Examples
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"and the largest Gothic mausoleum in the western US."
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The company that bought it decided to tear it down because, at the time, they could make more money off parking than they could off an old gothic building.
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"It's Gothic style highlighted with Renaissance details."
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When I say cathedrals, it is first and foremost the gothic buildings we admire.
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It's a gothic mansion built in 1861... which would be worth five to six million dollars... if it were surrounded by prime vineyards.
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Terrified, Pam walks towards the source of the wails, a gothic prison door to which the tent is affixed.
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Oh Hiram, look at these darling gates, they're so wonderfully gothic.
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We explored some of the gothic glories and relived the endless registration lines and the lectures that entranced classes the size of regiments.
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Its relation with the surrounding neo-gothic buildings is in contrast; it claims to be contemporary architecture while taking into account the volume of the school's main building and its façade's hues.
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The Gothic cathedral, with its towering spires and intricate stained glass, is a breathtaking example of medieval architecture.
Synonyms
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Old-fashioned and unfair in ideas or ways of treating people
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Very old-fashioned in ideas and often unfair
Antonyms
Compounds
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A style of building that copies medieval Gothic churches, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
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A European church and cathedral style with tall pointed arches and flying buttresses
- Literature
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Stories or novels with dark, mysterious settings and frightening events
A style of building design that copies medieval Gothic features like pointed arches and decorative stonework
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A style of church and cathedral building from 14th–15th century England with tall lines, Tudor arches, and fan-shaped stone ceilings
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An old East Germanic language once spoken by the Goths and known from a fourth-century Bible translation
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A style of English church design from the 1300s and 1400s with tall lines, Tudor arches, and fan vaults
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A building style from the 1800s that copies old Gothic churches with pointed arches and tall towers
How Old-Fashioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gothic comes from the name of the Goths, a people from long ago, and people later used it to mean 'barbaric' or 'backward'. So calling something gothic can mean it is 'old-fashioned' and 'unenlightened'.