Baroque

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  baroque
       adj : having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the
             building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
             [syn: {churrigueresque}, {churrigueresco}]
       n : elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and
           architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th
           century [syn: {baroqueness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)