Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gothicise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: goth-icise
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make Gothic in style or character.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Director Burton skillfully mixes aspects of these [traditional horror] films with the emotional naiveté and post-modern chic of contemporary teen-films. This gives us something that resembles a gothicized Sixteen Candles or a monstrous Pretty in Pink."
"..He was commissioned to Gothicise the royal apartments at Windsor and to work on William Beckford's house at Fonthill."
"Her tales of benevolent ghosts Gothicise everyday domestic space."
"Music can be a Gothicising factor in the cinema without necessarily being representative of the genre itself: the performativity of musical connotations can cause a Gothicising of the film narrative or imagery."

Etymology

From Gothic + -ise.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

Gothicises (present, singular) Gothicising (participle, present) Gothicised (participle, past) Gothicised (past)

Questions

What does gothicise mean?: To make Gothic in style or character.
Where does gothicise come from?: From Gothic + -ise.

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