baroque

About 2.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
2. adjective Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
3. adjective Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
4. adjective Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
5. adjective Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
6. adjective Overly and needlessly complicated.

   grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles

7. noun An ornate, detailed style.

Similar words

fancy baroqueness churrigueresque churrigueresco ornate extravagant flamboyant florid rococo elaborate

Often followed by

style and period music art architecture era in church

Word family

Baroque Baroques baroquely baroques