The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe.

synonyms: Baroque era, Baroque period.

Dutch: barok
Polish: barok

Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century.

synonym: baroqueness.

Roget 851: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.    courseness etc. adj.^†; indecorum, misbehavior.    lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness etc. adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism^†; ribaldry; slang etc. (neology) 563.    bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].    [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^†; baroque, rococo.    rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^†; clown etc. (commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu etc. 876; frump, dowdy; slattern etc. 653.    ... show more

Polish: barok

Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation:
— The building...frantically baroque.

synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming^†, unpresentable^†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    dowdy; slovenly etc. (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi [Gr.], etc. (plebeian) 876; uncourtly^†; uncivil etc. (discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.    untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.    unkempt.    uncombed, untamed, unlicked^†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite^†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical^†, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.    obsolete etc. (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83; odd etc. (ridiculous) 853.    particular; affected etc. 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive.    ... show more

Roget 853: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric etc. (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward etc. (ugly) 846.    extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.    drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible etc. (unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical etc. (derisive) 856; risible.    ... show more

Polish: barokowy

Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750.

Polish: barokowy