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Definition: GOTHICISM |
GOTHICISMNoun1. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness. 2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture. 3. A Gothic idiom. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gothicism | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
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. | |
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