baroque

Speech parts

1. baroque - Noun

2. baroque - Adjective

3. baroque - Adjective Satellite

4. Baroque - Proper noun

Meaning

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rococo complex elaborate intricate ornate extravagant flamboyant gilded convoluted showy overwrought churrigueresque baroqueness byzantine gilt
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Antonyms

spartan simple basic stark poor ordinary
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Hypernyms

idiom artistic style

Phrases with the word

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Anagrams

Baquero

Examples

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway

I was attracted by the curve - the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. Oscar Niemeyer

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation. Harry Seidler

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. Cecilia Bartoli

I am mimetic. If I write a book set in the seventeenth century, I write in a Baroque style. If I'm writing a book set in a newspaper office, I write in Journalese. Umberto Eco

His consolation in those hours when he was most uncharitable to himself is that taken at his very worst he was at least still worthy of being a character in a novel by Balzac, win one day, lose the next, and do it with boom! and baroque in the style. Norman Mailer

Close letter words and terms

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