Goth Vocabulary

22 Goth litterature terms

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A psychic

noun

A person considered or claiming to have psychic powers; a medium.

Example: This person claims to have psychic powers and to tell us our futur.

fr: Un médium

A remote location

noun

A remote area, house, or village is a long way from any towns or cities.

Example: They live in a remote corner of Scotland, miles from the nearest shop.

fr: Un lieu éloigné

Aghast

Adjective

Filled with horror or shock.

Example: She winced, aghast at his cruelty.

fr: Atteré

Bloodcurdling

Adjective

Causing or expressing terror or horror.

Example: A blood-curdling scream.

fr: Glaçant le sang

Creaking

Noun

Harsh, high-pitched noise made when something is being moved or when pressure or weight is applied to it.

Example: He boards a creaking wooden boat.

fr: Grincement

Dank

Adjective

Unpleasantly damp and cold.

Example: Huge dank caverns.

fr: Humide

Desolate

Adjective

Uninhabited place which gives an impression of bleak emptiness.

Example: A desolate Pennine moor.

fr: Déserté

Dingy

Adjective

Gloomy and drab.

Example: A dingy room.

fr: Sombre

Dismal

Adjective

Causing a mood of gloom or depression.

Example: The dismal weather made the late afternoon seem like evening.

fr: Lugubre

Dismay

Noun

Concern and distress caused by something unexpected.

Example: To his dismay, she left him.

fr: Consternation

Grime

noun

Dirt ingrained on the surface of something.

Example: The windows were thick with grime.

fr: Saleté

Ominous

Adjective

Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.

Example: There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead.

fr: De mauvaise augure

Sense of foreboding

noun

The feeling that something bad is going to happen.

Example: The gloomy weather gave me a sense of foreboding.

fr: Sensation d'appréhension

Shuddering

Adjective

Characterized or accompanied by violent shaking or vibration.

Example: The train came to a shuddering halt.

fr: Frissonant

Spine-chilling

Adjective

Alarmingly or eerily frightening.

Example: He told them a spine-chilling ghost story.

fr: A glacer le sang

To annihilate

Verb

Destroy utterly; obliterate.

Example: A simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all.

fr: Anéantir

To portend

Verb

Be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen.

Example: The eclipses portend some major events.

fr: Présager

To sleep fitfully

Verb

In a way that often stops and starts and is not regular or continuous.

Example: I had a fitful night's sleep: I woke up several times throughout the night.

fr: Dormir de façon agitée

To thwart plans

Verb

To prevent someone from doing or getting what they want.

Example: We need to thwart the Witch's plans before it's to late.

fr: Contrecarrer les plans

Unnerving

Adjective

Causing one to lose courage or confidence; disconcerting.

Example: An unnerving experience.

fr: Déconcertant

Wicked

Adjective

Evil or morally wrong.

Example: A wicked politician.

fr: Méchant

Witless

Adjective

Foolish; stupid.

Example: A Witless retort.

fr: Stupide