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Synonyms:
- immoderate, steep, flamboyant, complex, towering, extravagant, plain, aquatint, high-sounding, opulent, rhetorical, complicate, flowery, elaborate, incomprehensible, overextravagant, showy, inflated, unconscionable, devilish, overweening, byzantine, art nouveau, grandiloquent, agitprop, tangled, the avant-garde, confusing, insane, exorbitant, unmerciful, convoluted, lavish, ponderous, rococo, ornate, gilded, stiff, labyrinthine, splashy, sophisticated, eloquent, camp, difficult, lofty, involved, complicated, abstract expressionism, overdue, bloated, voluble, rich, baroqueness, brushwork, churrigueresco, extreme, intricate, art deco, labyrinthian, bombastic, involute, daedal, contorted, churrigueresque, confused, plethoric, overmuch, florid, intolerable, highfalutin, Arts and Crafts, fancy, embellished, inordinate, knotty, undue
Examples:
- - The rear of the choir is badly mutilated by a Baroque screen, while the sides and back of the high altar still consist of the rough blocks which have been waiting for centuries to be carved. - "Cathedrals of Spain", John A. (John Allyne) Gade
- - It is undeniable that Bernini had a baroque taste. - "Cæsar or Nothing", PÃo Baroja Baroja
- - Over this ancient Prague rise structures of an alien nature, baroque creations of the Jesuits, in spirit foreign to all that the capital of Bohemia stands for. - "From a Terrace in Prague", Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
Antonyms:
- minimal, noncomplex, moderate, simplistic, plain, oversimplified, uniform, middling, simplified, simple, deficient, temperate, modest, unvaried, homogeneous, minimum, insufficient, uncomplicated, reasonable, inadequate
