BAROQUE PERIOD Synonyms

• unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

• recklessly wasteful

• not plain; decorative or ornamented

• something many people believe that is false

• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

• a predisposition to like something

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

• showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

• marked by ostentation but often tasteless

• elaborately or excessively ornamented

• impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

• affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• very generous

• characterized by extravagance and profusion

• expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns

• ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

• marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• possessing material wealth

• having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources)

• high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air

• suggestive of or characterized by great expense

• causing indignation due to hypocrisy

• people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)

• of great worth or quality

• marked by great fruitfulness

• strong; intense

• very productive

• containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar

• marked by richness and fullness of flavor

• pleasantly full and mellow

• affording an abundant supply

• fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

• having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation

• add details to

• be beautiful to look at

• make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

• make more beautiful

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

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

• elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

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

• having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation

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