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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Baroque \Ba*roque"\, adjective [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
adjective: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells [syn: {churrigueresque}, {churrigueresco}]
noun: 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 adjective [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)
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