Baroque

/bə'rouk/
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Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Relating to a highly ornate style: Of or relating to the elaborate, dramatic, and heavily ornamented style of European art, architecture, and music that flourished from about 1600 to 1750.
    • Extravagantly complex or ornate: Characterized by intricate detail, exuberant decoration, and a sense of dynamic movement, often to the point of being excessively elaborate.

  2. Noun:

    • The Baroque style or period: The historic period, or the artistic style itself, characterized by grandeur, drama, and elaborate detail in art, architecture, and music.
    • Ornamentation: Elaborate and extensive ornamentation typical of this style.
Examples of Usage

  • Adjective:

    • The church's baroque altar was covered in gold leaf and swirling patterns.
    • His writing style is often described as baroque due to its complex sentences and rich vocabulary.

  • Noun:

    • Bach and Vivaldi are major composers of the Baroque.
    • The palace is a masterpiece of the Baroque.
Advanced Usage

  • "Baroque pearl": An irregularly shaped pearl, which gave the style its name (from the Portuguese "barroco").

    • The necklace featured a large, beautiful baroque pearl.

  • Used metaphorically to describe anything excessively complex or intricately detailed.

    • The argument became increasingly baroque, with layers of unnecessary complexity.
Variants and Related Words

  • Baroquely (adverb): In a baroque manner.

    • The hall was baroquely decorated.

  • Baroqueness (noun): The quality of being baroque.

    • The baroqueness of the sculpture was overwhelming.
Synonyms
  • Ornate: Made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex patterns.
  • Elaborate: Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.
  • Florid: Having a red or flushed complexion; or (of language or style) using unusual words or complex rhetorical structures.
  • Rococo: Of or relating to an 18th-century artistic style characterized by elaborate ornamentation, but often lighter and more playful than Baroque.
Antonyms
  • Plain: Not decorated or elaborate; simple or ordinary in character.
  • Minimalist: Advocating or practicing minimalism; using the fewest and simplest elements.
  • Austere: Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance; having no comforts or luxuries.
Related Phrases and Idioms
  • "Baroque complexity": A phrase used to describe a system, argument, or design that is unnecessarily intricate and convoluted.
    • The legal code had reached a level of baroque complexity that baffled even experts.
Adjective
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
  2. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
    • the building...frantically baroque-William Dean Howells
Noun
  1. elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
  2. the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe

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