Difference between Baroque and Fancy

What is the difference between Baroque and Fancy?

Baroque as an adjective is ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. while Fancy as an adjective is decorative.

Baroque

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. complex and beautiful, yet for an outward irregularity. chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

Example sentence: My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

Fancy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The imagination; an imagined image.A whim.Love or amorous attachment.Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Decorative.Of a superior grade.Executed with skill.Unnecessarily complicated.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To appreciate without jealousy or greed.would like toTo be sexually attracted to.To imagine.

Example sentence: 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

We hope you now know whether to use Baroque or Fancy in your sentence.

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