English Explanatory Dictionary

Baroque

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. From or characteristic of the Baroque period.
name
  1. A period in Western architecture, art, and music from c. 1600–1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.
  2. The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.
adj
  1. Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
  2. Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
  3. Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
  4. Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
  5. Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
  6. Overly and needlessly complicated.
noun
  1. An ornate, detailed style.

Pronunciation

/bəˈɹɒk/ /bəˈɹəʊk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Baroque.wav /bəˈɹoʊk/ /bæˈɹɒk/

Word forms

Baroque more Baroque most Baroque baroquer baroquest baroques

Etymology

Via French (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape) from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco and Sicilian baroccu, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verruca (“wart”), or possibly from the technical construction of scholastic logic, Baroco.

Synonyms

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Derived words

Baroque guitar baroquely baroque organ baroque pearl Baroque period baroque pop barococo baroqueness baroque piety baroque pitch baroque rock baroquey baroquism earthquake baroque neo-baroque unbaroque
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