baroque.

1. Relating to the dramatic and elaborately developed styles of art, architecture, and music associated broadly with the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

2. Ornate, intricate, or extravagantly complicated.

3. Irregular in shape, especially of a pearl.

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Words that belong together

• Baroque architecture
• Baroque music

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Baroque architecture framed the square where the crowd waited.

Baroque music followed her through the rooms of the old collection.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more baroque; superlative most baroque where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.