Baroque

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
baroque
    adj 1: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the
           building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
           [syn: {baroque}, {churrigueresque}, {churrigueresco}]
    2: of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately
       ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in
       Europe between 1600 and 1750 [syn: {baroque}, {Baroque}]
    n 1: the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the
         baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in
         Europe [syn: {Baroque}, {Baroque era}, {Baroque period}]
    2: elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and
       architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
       [syn: {baroque}, {baroqueness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a. [F.; cf. It. barocco.] (Arch.)
   1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style
      common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of
      complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than
      straight lines, and, in music a high degree of
      embellishment.
      [PJC]

   2. Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad
      taste; grotesque; odd.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   3. Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
baroque
 adj.

   [common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said
   of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the
   connotations of {elephantine} or {monstrosity} but is less extreme and
   not pejorative in itself. "Metafont even has features to introduce
   random variations to its letterform output. Now that is baroque!" See
   also {rococo}.
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Baroque

   An early {logic programming} language written by Boyer and
   Moore in 1972.

   ["Computational Logic: Structure Sharing and Proof of program
   Properties", J. Moore, DCL Memo 67, U Edinburgh 1974].

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-02-22)
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
baroque

   Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.  Said
   of hardware or (especially) software designs, this has many of
   the connotations of {elephantine} or monstrosity but is less
   extreme and not pejorative in itself.  "{Metafont} even has
   features to introduce random variations to its letterform
   output.  Now *that* is baroque!"

   See also {rococo}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-02-22)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "baroque":
      Gothic, arabesque, bizarre, brain-born, busy, chichi, deformed,
      dream-built, elaborate, elegant, embellished, extravagant,
      fanciful, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque,
      fantastic, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, freak, freakish,
      frilly, fussy, gilt, grotesque, high-wrought, labored, luscious,
      luxuriant, luxurious, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen,
      monstrous, moresque, notional, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious,
      outlandish, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked,
      overwrought, picturesque, preposterous, pretty-pretty, rich,
      rococo, scrolled, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical, wild
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