Barbaric and Gothic

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Barbaric adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.

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Gothic and barbaric are semantically related in medieval topic. In some cases you can use "Gothic" instead an adjective "Barbaric".

Gothic adjective - Of or relating to the Goths.

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Barbaric and Gothic are semantically related in medieval topic. You can use "Barbaric" instead an adjective "Gothic".

Nearby Word: goth

The name "Gothic" comes from a kind of architecture from The Middle Ages (christened as such by those who considered it barbaric in comparison to classical architecture, the name coming from the barbarian tribe of the Goths).

Source: Gothic Horror
Although amusingly enough, the so-called Gothic architecture developed during the Middle Ages was technologically more advanced than anything done in the ancient Rome, but the Renaissance people thought it was crude and barbaric because it diverted from the Roman aesthetics.

Source: Modern Stasis
It was meant to be derogatory in the same way as calling something "barbaric." By the same token, popular literature that involved dark, violent, and sexual themes was dubbed "gothic literature," and provided the basis for the "Goth" subculture.

Source: Non Indicative Name / Real Life

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