Baroque

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baroque

Usage: adj. Derivation: Common See Also: rococo

baroque: adj.

[common] Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp.) software designs, this has many of the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less extreme and not pejorative in itself. In the absence of other, more negative descriptions this term suggests that the software is trembling on the edge of bad taste but has not quite tipped over into it. "Metafont even has features to introduce random variations to its letterform output. Now that is baroque!" See also rococo.

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