2. Rude; ancient.
3. Barbarous.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
2. 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.
1. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
3. The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
Gothic language
Encyclopedia Britannica
GOTHIC LANGUAGE. See under Goths, p. 852.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 10, p. 846
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1. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
2. A Gothic idiom.
3. Conformity to the Gothic style of building.
1. A Gothic idiom.
2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture.
3. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
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Amorphism Roget’s Thesaurus §241
N. amorphism, # informity, unlicked cub, rudis indigestaque moles, disorder, deformity, disfigurement, defacement, mutilation, deforming, chaos, randomness (disorder) 59, fluid
Vulgarity Roget’s Thesaurus §851
N. vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, vandalism, gothicism|, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, goth, vandal, boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern
V. be vulgar, misbehave, talk shop, smell of the shop
Adj. in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491, unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive
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