Definitions For Gothic

noun

• 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
• A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
• 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

adjective

• Characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque
• As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened

adjective

• Of or relating to the Goths
• Of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths
• Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German