The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a. [F.; cf. It. barocco.] (Arch.)
   1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style
      common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of
      complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than
      straight lines, and, in music a high degree of
      embellishment.
      [PJC]

   2. Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad
      taste; grotesque; odd.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   3. Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

baroque
    adj 1: having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the
           building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
           [syn: baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco]
    2: of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately
       ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in
       Europe between 1600 and 1750 [syn: baroque, Baroque]
    n 1: the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the
         baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in
         Europe [syn: Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period]
    2: elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and
       architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
       [syn: baroque, baroqueness]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "baroque":
   Gothic, arabesque, bizarre, brain-born, busy, chichi, deformed,
   dream-built, elaborate, elegant, embellished, extravagant,
   fanciful, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque,
   fantastic, fine, flamboyant, florid, flowery, freak, freakish,
   frilly, fussy, gilt, grotesque, high-wrought, labored, luscious,
   luxuriant, luxurious, maggoty, malformed, misbegotten, misshapen,
   monstrous, moresque, notional, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious,
   outlandish, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked,
   overwrought, picturesque, preposterous, pretty-pretty, rich,
   rococo, scrolled, teratogenic, teratoid, whimsical, wild



The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

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.


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Baroque

   An early logic programming language written by Boyer and
   Moore in 1972.

   ["Computational Logic: Structure Sharing and Proof of program
   Properties", J. Moore, DCL Memo 67, U Edinburgh 1974].

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-02-22)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

baroque

   Feature-encrusted; complex; gaudy; verging on excessive.  Said
   of hardware or (especially) software designs, this has many of
   the connotations of elephantine or monstrosity but is less
   extreme and not pejorative in itself.  "Metafont even has
   features to introduce random variations to its letterform
   output.  Now *that* is baroque!"

   See also rococo.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-02-22)