Englishbaroque
adjective
1 the baroque exuberance of his printed silk shirts:
ornate, fancy, very elaborate, overelaborate, curlicued, extravagant, rococo, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread.
2 a baroque prose style:
flowery, florid, flamboyant, high-flown, high-sounding, magniloquent, grandiloquent, orotund, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, labored, strained, overwrought, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, turgid, inflated;
informal highfalutin, purple;
rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated.
▷antonyms plain.