Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun baroque

2 senses of baroque

Sense 1
Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period -- (the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe)
       INSTANCE OF=> historic period, age -- (an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age")

Sense 2
baroque, baroqueness -- (elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century)
       => artistic style, idiom -- (the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom")

Antonyms of adj baroque

1 of 2 senses of baroque

Sense 1
baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco -- (having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells)

INDIRECT (VIA fancy) -> plain -- (not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building")

Similarity of adj baroque

2 senses of baroque

Sense 1
baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco -- (having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells)
       => fancy (vs. plain) -- (not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes")

Sense 2
baroque, Baroque -- (of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750)