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GOTHICISM

Definition: GOTHICISM

GOTHICISM

Noun

1. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.

2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture.

3. A Gothic idiom.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: GOTHICISM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vulgarity

Noun: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout, bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding; (discourtesy).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: GOTHICISM

DomainTitle

Books

  • Carlyle and the Economics of Terror: A Study of Revisionary Gothicism in the French Revolution (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GOTHICISM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gothicism

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GOTHICISM

Language Translations for "GOTHICISM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

gótikus stílus (gothic), vadság (barbarity, ferocity, fierceness, rampageousness, rampancy, rowdyism, ruffianism, savageness, savagery, severity, truculence, wildness), primitívség (primitiveness), barbárság (barbarity, heathenism, inhumanity, savagery). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

othicismgay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

grosolãnie (barbarity, broadness, coarseness, crassitude, gruffness, hoggishness, indecorum, indelicacy, rankness, roughness, rudeness, scurrility, uncouthness), stil gotic (pointed style), barbarie (barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, cruelty, vandalism). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gotik mimari, kabalık (abruptness, asperity, barbarism, barbarity, boorishness, brusqueness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disrespect, earthiness, gall, gruffness, harshness, impolite behaviour, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, inelegance, loutishness, rankness, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, shortness, vulgarism, vulgarity), barbarlık (barbarism, barbarity, heathenism, savageness, vandalism). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính thô lỗ (bearishness, boorishness, gruffness, ill-manneredness, pertness, snippiness, ungentleness), tính cục cằn (bearishness, grumpiness, ill-manneredness), lối gôtic, kiểu gôtic từ ngữ đặc Gô-tích tính dã man. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: GOTHICISM

Misspellings

"GOTHICISM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gothicise, gothicize, Goticos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GOTHICISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-i-m-o-s-t"

-2 letters: gothics, isthmic, miotics, somitic.

-3 letters: gothic, isthmi, mights, miotic, sitcom.

-4 letters: chits, ghost, gismo, hoist, might, mitis, moist, moths, ohmic, omits, osmic, schmo, sight, smith, stich, stoic.

-5 letters: chis, chit, cigs, cist, cogs, cosh, cost, cots, ghis, gist, gits, gosh, hist, hits, hogs, host, hots, ichs, itch, mhos, migs, miso, mist, mocs, mogs, mosh.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-i-m-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: mistouching.

 

+3 letters: locksmithing.

 

+4 letters: locksmithings.

 

+5 letters: geochemistries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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