| 单词 | gothic |
| 释义 | gothic (once / 9373 pages) adj The adjective gothic describes something that is characterized by mystery, horror, and gloom — especially in literature. Gothic literature combines the genres of romance and horror. Some famous writers of Gothic fiction include Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. Nowadays, though, if you refer to someone as "goth," you are not saying they write a good ghost story; you are commenting on their pale makeup, black fingernail polish and Victorian fashion. Gothic can also describe something barbaric, rude, and unenlightened as if from medieval times. This use of the word is usually capitalized. The word is from the Goths, a Germanic people who invaded the Roman Empire. WORD FAMILYgothic: gothically USAGE EXAMPLESIn your collection of stories, there’s a recurring interest in ghost stories, or, more generally, the gothic. The New Yorker(Dec 12, 2016) You used to sing in a band, Dead Man’s Bones, and your sound was a bit gravelly and gothic then. Los Angeles Times(Dec 09, 2016) It’s also, more straightforwardly, a gothic mystery about small-town secrets. The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016) 1adj characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque gothic novels like `Frankenstein' Syn strange, unusual being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird 2adj as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened Syn mediaeval, medieval nonmodern not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time Gothic (once / 802 pages) 1adjn 2n 3adjn WORD FAMILY Gothic: Gothically, Gothics USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s the state’s earliest remaining example of “Carpenters Gothic” style architecture. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) To drown this in Sriracha would be like affixing emoticons to American Gothic. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) There is a moment of silence, and then the organ hits you, right in the solar plexus, with a chord of Gothic proportions. The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1adj of or relating to the Goths Gothic migrations 2adj of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths the Gothic Bible translation 3n 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 2Hyper East Germanic, East Germanic language an extinct branch of the Germanic languages n 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 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper Gothic architecture English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular, perpendicular style a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting Tudor architecturea style of English-Gothic architecture popular during the Tudor period; characterized by half-timbered houses architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture architecture as a kind of art form 1adj characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German 2n a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries Syn|Hyper black letter case, face, font, fount, typeface a specific size and style of type within a type family |
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