Clues for the word "GOTHIC"
We've had 42 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 48 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 31, 2025.
Definition of gothic
- a. - Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
- a. - 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.
- n. - The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
- n. - A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
- n. - The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
Referring Clues
- Like some romances
- Like Shelley's "Frankenstein"
- Like "Frankenstein"
- Like Notre-Dame de Paris
- Architectural style
- Fiction genre
- Novel category
- Notre Dame's architectural style
- Like some romance novels
- Like 13-Down's look
- Ominously gloomy
- Dark and gloomy, aesthetically
- Reminiscent of Poe
- Literature genre
- "Wuthering Heights" genre
- Like some arches or novels
- Kind of romance
- "Frankenstein" genre
- Type of novel
- Grotesque genre of fiction
- Like the novels "Frankenstein" and "Dracula"
- Like Poe's genre
- Like many Anne Rice novels
- Style of architecture
- Bauhaus genre
- Lurid - style of European architecture
- Style attained height in churches, primarily
- Understood bumpkin talking in ancient language
- Of architecture with flying buttresses, for example
- Architectural style acquired spasms, not trophies
- Chief invader's artistic style
- Style between Romanesque and Classical
- Style of architecture popular in Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries
- Anti-Renaissance type arrived here once
- Like many cathedrals, become almost intimate
- Try and maybe hit a century in old-fashioned style
- Leave mostly stupid, horrific
- Like Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
- Medieval
- Kind of type used in the Gutenberg Bible
- Like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein"
- "American ___" (Grant Wood painting)
Last Seen In
- New York Times - March 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2024
- LA Times - December 04, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 17, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 01, 2018
- Mirror Quick - November 17, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 05, 2017
- Universal - August 21, 2017
- New York Times - August 02, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 22, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 30, 2016
- New York Times - October 18, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - April 21, 2016
- LA Times - April 17, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 13, 2016
- Universal - January 20, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 23, 2014
- Rock n Roll Crossword - February 02, 2014
- LA Times - July 30, 2013
- Guardian Quick - November 22, 2012
- USA Today - June 11, 2012
- LA Times - June 02, 2012
- Chicago Reader - June 24, 2011
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 06, 2011
- New York Times - February 23, 2011
- Chicago Reader - November 26, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - September 13, 2010
- And in 18 more crossword puzzles...