gothic
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈɡɑːθɪk/
- The haunting beauty of the old mansion made it a perfect setting for a gothic horror story.
- Gothic novel
- gothic horror
- gothic fiction
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Watch on YouTubeBut yes, if you like dark, gothic kind of books with people doing awful things.
- But yes, if you like dark, gothic kind of books with people doing awful things.
- So like it just feels like a British Gothic novel.
- CMI mean, even down to the architecture of the ship is a gothic horror movie, right?
- But beyond all of that, it's an interesting story and a mystery in this very atmospheric, gothic England.
- She goes to this mansion and it's like a gothic style, like very, very intense, huge mansion.
- And so I drove away thinking, wow, so you know, gothic horror ghost stories with character driven drama.
- It's I'm loving the writing style of it a lot and it's it's giving me like gothic dark academia vibes.
- He was dark MAGA, dark gothic MAGA, as he likes to say.
- OK, they look super like kind of emo and like gothic sort of, but I love them.
Examples
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This feels, she feels there's something sort of like Scandinavian gothic about this.
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But yes, if you like dark, gothic kind of books with people doing awful things.
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Now it's a little more mainstream, but back then it was like the dark gothic kids at school.
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But beyond all of that, it's an interesting story and a mystery in this very atmospheric, gothic England.
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You know, Claire and I are starting a new gothic novel.
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My mother, brothers, and grandfather were there in the gothic light of Holy Name Cathedral.
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And there you have this gothic, glamorous look.
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It's haunting, gothic, elegant, mysterious and romantic.
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It's I'm loving the writing style of it a lot and it's it's giving me like gothic dark academia vibes.
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Goodness, how gothic!
Antonyms
Compounds
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8.1
A style of building that copies medieval Gothic churches, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
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6.8
A European church and cathedral style with tall pointed arches and flying buttresses
- Literature
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9.3
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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8.5
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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9.9
An old East Germanic language once spoken by the Goths and known from a fourth-century Bible translation
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8.9
A style of English church design from the 1300s and 1400s with tall lines, Tudor arches, and fan vaults
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8.0
A building style from the 1800s that copies old Gothic churches with pointed arches and tall towers
How Gothic
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Etymology
Gothic comes from the name of an old people, the Goths, and later the word was used for buildings and stories from the Middle Ages that felt wild, dark, or frightening. So gothic now describes writing, buildings, or art with a gloomy, mysterious, or strange atmosphere.