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Baroque

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

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Fancy 84% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Idiom 76% connected

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Art noun · 78% connection

the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…

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Artistic creation noun · 78% connection

the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…

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Artistic production noun · 78% connection

the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…

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Baroqueness noun · 78% connection

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

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Contemporary adjective · 78% connection

characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

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Cubism noun · 78% connection

an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

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Expressionism noun · 78% connection

an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling wa…

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History noun · 78% connection

the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long…

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Impressionism noun · 78% connection

a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflecte…

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Modern-day adjective · 78% connection

characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

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Modernism noun · 78% connection

genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres

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Rebirth noun · 78% connection

the revival of learning and culture

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Renaissance noun · 78% connection

the revival of learning and culture

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Renascence noun · 78% connection

the revival of learning and culture

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Romantic Movement noun · 78% connection

a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Roman…

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Romanticism noun · 78% connection

a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Roman…

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Acid adjective · 78% connection

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.

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Antic adjective · 78% connection

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.

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Antimask noun · 78% connection

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.

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Attaste verb · 78% connection

To taste or cause to taste.

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Bambocciade noun · 78% connection

A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

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Bizarre adjective · 78% connection

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque.

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Bull verb · 78% connection

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called,…

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Burlesque noun · 78% connection

Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.

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Chimaera noun · 78% connection

a grotesque product of the imagination

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Chimera noun · 78% connection

a grotesque product of the imagination

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Disgust verb · 78% connection

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily…

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Fantastic adjective · 78% connection

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.

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Genteel adjective · 78% connection

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of…

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Grotesquely adverb · 78% connection

In a grotesque manner.

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Grotesqueness noun · 78% connection

Quality of being grotesque.

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Guy noun · 78% connection

A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.

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Insipid adjective · 78% connection

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.

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Maidmarian noun · 78% connection

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports…

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