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Definitions for Baroque

[1] (often initial capital letter ) of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
[2] (sometimes initial capital letter ) of or relating to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.
[3] extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style: the baroque prose of the novel's more lurid passages.
[4] irregular in shape: baroque pearls.
[5] (often initial capital letter ) the baroque style or period.
[6] anything extravagantly ornamented, especially something so ornate as to be in bad taste.
[7] an irregularly shaped pearl.
[8] a style of architecture and decorative art that flourished throughout Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th century, characterized by extensive ornamentation
[9] a 17th-century style of music characterized by extensive use of the thorough bass and of ornamentation
[10] any ornate or heavily ornamented style
[11] denoting, being in, or relating to the baroque
[12] (of pearls) irregularly shaped

Words related to Baroque

florid, rococo, ornate, gilt, flamboyant, grotesque, rich, bizarre, convoluted, elaborate, extravagant, embellished, ornamented

Words nearby Baroque

baronize, barons' war, barony, barophilic, barophoresis, baroque, baroque organ, baroreceptor, baroreflex, baroscope, barosinusitis

Origin of Baroque

1755–65; < French < Portuguese barroco, barroca irregularly shaped pearl (of obscure origin; compare Spanish berrueco, barrueco granitic crag, irregular pearl, spherical nodule), probably conflated with Medieval Latin baroco invented word for a kind of obfuscating syllogism

Word origin for Baroque

C18: from French, from Portuguese barroco a rough or imperfectly shaped pearl

Synonyms for Baroque

florid, ornate, rococo, flamboyant, gilt, grotesque, rich, bizarre, convoluted, elaborate, embellished, extravagant, ornamented, overdecorated