Baroque

Quick meaning: Baroque is an adjective meaning Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Meaning

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

More Meanings

1. Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
2. Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
3. Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
4. (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
5. (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
6. An ornate, detailed style.

Example Sentences

grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles

baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges

According to baroque.org, characteristics of baroque music include loud and soft dynamics, emphasis on harmony, and the use of string instruments and the harpsichord.

[…] has semi-circular arches similar to those in Bourges, but pierced by unusual and irregular openings, and ringed with amusing portrait heads such as would not be found in the great Gothic Baroques of France.

Word Forms

• baroquer
• baroquest
• baroques

Synonyms for baroque

Depending on context, synonyms include fancy, baroqueness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fancy, baroqueness, ornate, extravagant, flamboyant, florid.

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