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baroque.

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

7 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/bæˈɹɒk/UK/bəˈɹoʊk/US

  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.

    capitalized · sometimes

  6. Overly and needlessly complicated.

    figuratively
    grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles
    baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges
Where this word comes from

Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.

noun/bæˈɹɒk/UK/bəˈɹoʊk/US

  1. An ornate, detailed style.

Where this word comes from

Via French baroque (which originally meant a pearl of irregular shape), from Portuguese barroco (“irregular pearl”); related to Spanish barrueco and Italian barocco, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly from Latin verrūca (“wart”). It has been suggested that the term derives from Baroco, a technical term from scholastic logic.

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