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Gothic

n. 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

Gothic architecture

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

black letter

n. a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries

Gothic

adj. of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"

Gothic

adj. of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the Gothic Bible translation"

primitive, crude, barbarous

adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

medieval, mediaeval

adj. as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"

crude, rude

adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

ignorant, nescient, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered

adj. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"

illiterate, ignorant

adj. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"

wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric

adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

preliterate, nonliterate

adj. used of a society that has not developed writing

antebellum

adj. belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

stick-in-the-mud, stodgy, fogyish, mossgrown, mossy

adj. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

old-fashioned, outmoded

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

quaint, old-time

adj. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

old-world

adj. characteristic of former times especially in Europe; "an old-world cottage"

unmodernized

adj. not brought up to date

Victorian

adj. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

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