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Definitions for baroque:

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.]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
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]

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

Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :
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.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
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)

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baroque: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
baroque ( ) adj. also Baroque Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to

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