English words for 'In a baroque style.'
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noun
adj
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
noun
adj
adj
name
- (art, music) A period in Western architecture, art, and music from c. 1600–1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.
- The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.
noun
- a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
- an extremely steep face
- a straight line at right angles to another line
- A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
- (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
adj
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- intersecting at or forming right angles
- so steep as to be nearly vertical
- Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
- Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).
adj
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- fairly large or important in effect; influential
- having broad power and range and scope
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- conspicuous in position or importance
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is large (the manufactured size).
- (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
- Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
noun
- a garment size for a large person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
adv
adj
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- (of sounds) full and rich
- Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
- Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
- (derogatory) Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
adj
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
adj
name
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- (attributive) A style of rococo bookplate.
- A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- (attributive) A style of furniture designed by, or resembling that of, Thomas Chippendale, generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on.
noun
- the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
- the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
- (architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.
- (sports, informal) Last place in a sports conference's standings.
- (geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
- Ellipsis of semi-basement, a floor mostly below grade
adj
name
- The period of this revival, typically lasting from the late 14th to the late 16th centuries; the transition from medieval to modern times.
- (historical) The 14th-century revival of classical art, architecture, literature and learning that originated in Italy and spread throughout Europe over the following two centuries.
noun
adj
- characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style
- Of or relating to various art styles, as in sculpture and ballet, inspired by older classical forms and conventions.
- (economics) Of or relating to an approach that focuses on the determination of prices, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and demand.
- Of pertaining to a style of architecture based on classical models, especially such a style of the 18th century.
- (linguistics) Being a recent construction based on older, classical elements.
noun
adj
- lavishly elegant and refined
- of extreme beauty
- delicately beautiful
- intense or sharp
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
noun
noun
- an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
- (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an acutely pointed arch, common in Gothic architecture.
- A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
- A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
- (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
verb
noun
name
noun
name
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A local government area and suburb of Perth, Western Australia, named after the ship Rockingham, which was blown ashore there; in full, the City of Rockingham.
- An unincorporated community in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
- A census-designated place in Bacon County, Georgia, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Ray County, Missouri, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Richmond County, North Carolina, United States.
- A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
- A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Corby district (OS grid ref SP8691).
noun
adj
noun
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
- An ornamentation.
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- the act of waving
- a showy gesture
verb
- (intransitive) To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- move or swing back and forth
verb
- (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
- (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
- (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
- (transitive) To enhance.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- make better or improve in quality
- make wealthy or richer
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
noun
adj
noun
- a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
- an extremely steep face
- a straight line at right angles to another line
- A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
- (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
adj
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- intersecting at or forming right angles
- so steep as to be nearly vertical
- Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
- Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).
noun
- the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
- the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
- (architecture) A floor of a building below ground level.
- (sports, informal) Last place in a sports conference's standings.
- (geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
- Ellipsis of semi-basement, a floor mostly below grade
noun
- an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
- (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an acutely pointed arch, common in Gothic architecture.
- A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
- A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
- (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
verb
noun
name
noun
name
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A local government area and suburb of Perth, Western Australia, named after the ship Rockingham, which was blown ashore there; in full, the City of Rockingham.
- An unincorporated community in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
- A census-designated place in Bacon County, Georgia, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Ray County, Missouri, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Richmond County, North Carolina, United States.
- A town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
- A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Corby district (OS grid ref SP8691).
noun
adj
noun
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
- An ornamentation.
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- the act of waving
- a showy gesture
verb
- (intransitive) To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- move or swing back and forth
noun
adj
noun
adj
verb
- (transitive) To adorn, ornate more richly. [from 17th c.]
- (physics, transitive) To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. [from 20th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. [from 17th c.]
- (chemistry) To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
- (transitive) To enhance.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- make better or improve in quality
- make wealthy or richer
adj
name
- (art, music) A period in Western architecture, art, and music from c. 1600–1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.
- The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.
noun
adj
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
adj
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- fairly large or important in effect; influential
- having broad power and range and scope
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- conspicuous in position or importance
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is large (the manufactured size).
- (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
- Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
noun
- a garment size for a large person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, larger than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
adv
adj
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- (of sounds) full and rich
- Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
- Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
- (derogatory) Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
adj
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
adj
name
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- (attributive) A style of rococo bookplate.
- A suburb of Sydney in the Sydney council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- (attributive) A style of furniture designed by, or resembling that of, Thomas Chippendale, generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on.
adj
name
- The period of this revival, typically lasting from the late 14th to the late 16th centuries; the transition from medieval to modern times.
- (historical) The 14th-century revival of classical art, architecture, literature and learning that originated in Italy and spread throughout Europe over the following two centuries.
noun
adj
- characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style
- Of or relating to various art styles, as in sculpture and ballet, inspired by older classical forms and conventions.
- (economics) Of or relating to an approach that focuses on the determination of prices, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and demand.
- Of pertaining to a style of architecture based on classical models, especially such a style of the 18th century.
- (linguistics) Being a recent construction based on older, classical elements.
noun
adj
- lavishly elegant and refined
- of extreme beauty
- delicately beautiful
- intense or sharp
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.