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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Neanderthal, Philistine, Victorian, animal, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, baroque, bestial, bizarre, bookless, brain-born, brutal, brutish, classical, coarse, crude, deceived, dream-built, extravagant, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, florid, fossil, fossilized, functionally illiterate, grammarless, grotesque, grown old, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-bred, ill-educated, illiterate, impolite, led astray, lowbrow, maggoty, medieval, mid-Victorian, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, noncivilized, nonintellectual, notional, of other times, old-world, outlandish, pagan, petrified, preposterous, primitive, rococo, rough-and-ready, rude, savage, superannuated, troglodytic, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unkempt, unlearned, unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unpolished, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untamed, untaught, untutored, whimsical, wild

Dictionary Results for Gothic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

Gothic
    adj 1: characteristic of the style of type commonly used for
           printing German
    2: of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the
       Gothic Bible translation"
    3: of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"
    4: as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and
       unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" [syn:
       medieval, mediaeval, gothic]
    5: characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic
       novels like `Frankenstein'"
    n 1: 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
    2: a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries [syn:
       Gothic, black letter]
    3: 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 [syn: Gothic,
       Gothic architecture]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gothic \Goth"ic\, a. [L. Gothicus: cf. F. gothique.]
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   1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude;
      barbarous.
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   2. (Arch.) 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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gothic \Goth"ic\, n.
   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.
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   Note: Bishop Ulfilas or Walfila translated most of the Bible
         into Gothic about the Middle of the 4th century. The
         portion of this translaton which is preserved is the
         oldest known literary document in any Teutonic
         language.
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   2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
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   Note: This is Nonpareil GOTHIC.
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   3. (Arch.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pointed \Point"ed\, a.
   1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
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   2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of
      expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a
      particular person or thing.
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            His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. --Pope.
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   Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown.

   Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of
      architecture in which the pointed arch is the predominant
      feature; -- more commonly called Gothic.
      [1913 Webster] -- Point"ed*ly, adv. -- Point"ed*ness,
      n.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Moesogothic \Moe`so*goth"ic\, n.
   The language of the Moesogoths; -- also called Gothic.
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